13 facts across the U.S.
Of all the traditional musicians in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, the fiddler holds a distinct place in both the comm…
The Hollywood Bowl located in Hollywood, California is the largest natural outdoor amphitheater in the United States.
Weezer frontman, Rivers Cuomo, was raised in an ashram called Yogaville in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Jazz music was born in New Orleans, Louisiana at the turn of the 20th century, emerging from a collision of African rhyt…
On the night of September 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key watched the British fleet bombard Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor…
Motown Records was founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1959 by Berry Gordy Jr. with an $800 loan from his family. Within a d…
Prince Rogers Nelson, known simply as Prince, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1958 and spent virtually his entire…
The Mississippi Delta region, roughly defined as the flat alluvial plain between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, is th…
Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in a two-room house built by his father Vernon in Tupelo, Mississippi. The hou…
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio, a choice that reflects Cleveland's historical importance t…
The musical Oklahoma!, which opened on Broadway on March 31, 1943, fundamentally changed the American musical theater. B…
Graceland, Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, is the second most visited house in the United States, behind onl…
Nashville's Music Row, a cluster of recording studios, publishing houses, and record labels concentrated in a small neig…