Michael Jackson wrote this song in 1993, in the Hotel Metropol in Moscow, allegedly feeling very depressed. ‘Stranger in Moscow’ reflects it well: it’s a sad ballad about a foreigner rambling through ...

Some Soviet songs about Moscow sound fake because they are too ideological: Their authors knew nothing about the city and composed them for career reasons. Yet all the songs deserved to be reviewed — ...

Rock musician Ben Folds was performing on the roof of New York City’s Pier 17 Thursday when he asked the audience to help him out with a new song. “What I want to do is put a little cool stutter in it ...