Nick Fradiani, star of “A Beautiful Noise”, performs what he calls the perfect pop song: “Sweet Caroline” – written and recorded right here in Memphis.

How perfect does Robert Smith’s voice still sound? Most of his ’80s contemporaries’ pipes are shadows of what they once were, but on The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World, this is the voice you remember ...

Some songs take a while to find their perfect form. In the case of “Enjoy the Silence,” one of the major hits from Depeche Mode‘s standout 1990 album Violator, it transformed from a quiet piece into a ...