Part of what makes a songwriter brilliant is their ability to spin a tale through song that might seem to be about one thing, but is really about another thing. That’s the heart of media literacy.

There’s an array of colors, shapes and forms in the list below of the Top 40 Drug Songs, just as it is with the substances themselves. You’ll find celebrations, experimental insights and cautionary ...

Living by the creed of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” can be a lot of fun. But as anyone who has tried that approach likely knows, it can also get out of hand quite quickly. Drugs in anyone’s world, ...

I was standing in the light pouring in from the open window of the first floor guest room of my aunt’s beach house in Grover Beach, Calif., while cleansing my Spotify “Beach” playlist of stale songs ...

When the Illinois Crime Commission released their list of “drug-oriented rock records” in 1971, they weren’t technically banning radio stations in the state from playing the songs. Just before the ICC ...