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 ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

Welcome to the sound of public radio in 2025. Our list of the best 125 songs of the year was curated by more than 60 writers and DJs across the NPR Music Network, and runs the gamut of sounds, scenes ...

With all those Christmas cookies around, it might be a good idea to get your heart pumping this holiday season. The average American gains a pound or two between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — and ...

End-of-Year List Season continues with long-running British publication NME and their 50 Best Albums of 2025 list. Their picks have some of the records you’re seeing on a lot of lists (including their ...

If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of people, that means listening to the same old Christmas records all over ...

(KTLA) — Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.

Since 1960, the Beatles—four fabulous lads from Liverpool, England—have remained the greatest rock and roll band in the history of music. How John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo ...

Back when Lainey Wilson was new to country music — living in her camper van in West Nashville and accruing a variety of colorful life stories and resume experience — she already had a vision for her ...

Joe Bonamassa’s sprawling centennial tribute keeps unfolding – Vol. III reminds us that the blues is still alive, still changing, and still finding new ways to connect generations. When B.B. King said ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...