Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

A sampling of 18 unique types of techno-pop music has been hurled into space by a San Francisco-based research group, in search of an extraterrestrial audience. If aliens are expecting Barry Manilow, ...

In abandoned warehouses, empty apartment lofts, and open fields, high-energy all-night dance parties were happening. It was the early 1990s and these raves — held in secret with party details often ...