The future of one small Hoosier city's downtown is being shaped by the future of Indiana's creative workforce. Students from Ball State and IU are drawing up plans to improve the busiest part of ...

HURRY SUNDOWN by K. B. Gilden. 1046 pages. Doubleday. $7.95. The decisive breakthrough came with the test run of Doubleday’s giant FIBS (Fiction Imitating Bestseller Simulator). On that historic day, ...

One of the bonuses of making "Song Sung Blue" filled with Neil Diamond songs is how astonishingly prolific the globally beloved singer-songwriter was during his five decades of recording and ...

Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer's new movie, "Song Sung Blue," opens in theaters in Memphis and across the U.S. and Canada on Christmas Day. Here's some information that might be helpful or interesting ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

AI-generated images of musical artists The Velvet Sundown and Breaking Rust. Music created by artificial intelligence (AKA AI-generated music) is now topping the record charts. Let that sink in for a ...

On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

If you're a parent, you may already be familiar with the emotional shift that can happen when the sun goes down. During the day, you might feel OK, but at night, the waves of anxiety can roll in: "Am ...

Sundown towns were all-white communities, neighborhoods or counties that exclude African Americans and other minority groups through discriminatory laws, harassment and threats or use of violence, ...

When Roger Murrah co-wrote “High Cotton,” he wasn’t just writing a country hit—he was telling the story of his childhood in Athens, Alabama. Recorded by Country Music Hall of Famers Alabama, “High ...

The Velvet Sundown duped millions after revealing that it was a machine-generated band. As AI art becomes indistinguishable from human art, will we need to reframe our definition of creativity? A ...

An AI image of the AI band the Velvet Sundown. Left to right: singer Gabe Farrow, guitarist Lennie West, drummer Orion “Rio” Del Mar, and guitarist/bassist Milo Rains. Photo: Velvet_Sundown/X You may ...