ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When rocker Eddie Cochran released "Summertime Blues" in August 1958, the concept of "the song of summer" was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that ...

Summertime, and the listening is easy, songs are rockin’ and the volume is high. Which is to say, it’s time to talk about songs of summers past. Songs of the summer anchor us in a time and place. You ...

Labor Day weekend has come and gone, which must mean that the final word is in on the Songs of the Summer. What does Billboard‘s chart-determined Song of the Summer tell us about the state of Songs of ...

The official start of the summer season is just around the corner, and nothing goes together quite as well as country music and summer songs. Country has plenty of fun, upbeat summer songs that ...

Paul Simon, Donna Summer and Hot Chocolate ruled the charts as America's bicentennial year kicked off with disco.

This week, The FADER went deep on our Songs of the Summer, from global megahits to underground bangers. We broke down our final list of contenders into a March Madness-style bracket, with four ...

The Grammys are in the winter but the best music is celebrated in the summer. With the release of lively hits like Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" and Tommy Richman's "Million Dollar Baby," the ...

Since Eddie Cochran released “Summertime Blues” in 1958, songs that capture the essence of summer have frequently become hits during the warm months of surf and sand, romances new and old, and the ...