You’ve got your grill ready. Your (legal) firecrackers are piled high. Your friends and family have brought the snacks. But where’s your Fourth of July music? Celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the American spirit with these patriotic songs.

Click here for the soundtrack to your 4th of July party.

“Disco will never be over…Something like this, that was this big and this important and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years – maybe many years – it’ll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or – worse – completely ignored. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and people going like this [strikes disco pose], but we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco. Those who didn’t understand will never understand:  disco was much more, and much better, than all that. Disco was too great and too much fun to be gone forever!”

– Jeff Nash from The Last Days of Disco

Click here to get back into disco.

For some movie stars, Hollywood is not enough. Actors have a long tradition of trying to cross over into other careers – mainly into music. Bruce Willis and Eddie Murphy tried in the ‘80s, Keanu Reeves and Russell Crowe in the ‘90s…but were any of them any good?

Click here to see if any current celebrity musicians can carry a tune.

There’s more to Irish music than the Chieftains, Gaelic Storm, and Riverdance soundtracks. U2, The Cranberries, Thin Lizzy — these are only a few of the awesome modern rock bands to come out of Ireland.

If you’d rather rock out than folk out this St. Patrick’s Day (or any other time), click here.