Paste’s ongoing 50 states project marches on. Like Alabama, Arkansas has a rich, fertile music history. Most of the songs about it are from bluesmen or country singers, but who better to catalog the ...

Believe it or not: a musician who goes by “The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities & Towns,” has a released a 50-song album called “Arkansas Songs Forever,” with each tune extolling the greatness of a ...

Trevor Powers has shared the self-directed music video for his new Youth Lagoon song “Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas).” The visual collages together home movies and archival footage. Watch it below.

“You learn how to make a fist / Before you learn to sift through emotions / The translation of boy or man—fixed / cumbersome, leaden, difficult to shift.” Those are a few lines from a musical ...

Jed Clampit, born in Monticello, has become an Arkansas treasure by building a career largely outside the usual markers of musical success. For more than five decades, he has made his living as a ...