Frank Zappa once provocatively asked, "If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?" This insightful question set the stage for a pivotal moment in music history. In 1985, Zappa ...

Madonna’s Justify My Love shocked MTV with its ban in 1990, but fans propelled it to #1, cementing her status as pop’s most daring icon.

Did you ever hear that Frank Zappa quote "If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?" Quite a point, right? Back in 1985, he and a bunch of other musicians took a firm stance ...

It was a graveyard smash. It caught on in a flash. And Elvis Presleyreportedly thought it was trash. It's perhaps the quintessential Halloween song, Bobby "Boris" Pickettand the Crypt-Kickers' ...

Maskandi artist Mthandeni Manqele says someone reported his music to social media platforms and got his top songs banned just before the festive season.

In a historic act of defiance, hundreds of young Russians gathered in a city square to sing a banned song calling for the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. The crowd was captured on video in Kazanskaya ...

An ongoing censorship crackdown in Russia sees a teenage band jailed after a performance of an anti-Kremlin song went viral, ...

The Swan Lake Cooperative was created by exiled rapper Noize MC, whose real name is Ivan Alexeyev. The 40-year-old has been ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced the extraordinary decision to cancel Kanye West’s valid Australian visa following the rapper’s release of a song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in May.

The Russian prosecution office opened a case against 18-year-old Diana “Naoko” Loginova, a student at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and vocalist of the St. Petersburg street band Stoptime. The ...