Dry Cleaning. Jenny on Holiday. An introspective debut from Mon Rovîa. Stephen Thompson from NPR Music is joined by Celia ...

Bruno Mars has announced that his new album, “The Romantic,” is set to release on February 27, with new music dropping this ...

Every week, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the previous seven days, awarding one ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

APP. SPOTIFY IS OUT WITH ITS ANNUAL LIST OF THE TOP ARTISTS AND SONGS OF 2024, AND IT APPEARS THERE WAS ONE SONG MILWAUKEE JUST COULDN’T GET ENOUGH OF THIS YEAR. EVERYBODY AT THE BAR DEEP DISH. WELL, ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay. Right about now, music critics are sharing their favorite albums of the year or ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

With 2025 coming to a close, that means we've reached the halfway point for this decade. Difficult as that may be to believe, it is true, and it technically marks six full years of music, counting ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Mariah Carey charts a new top 10 hit as “Christmas (Baby Please ...