Metallica are raising their voices — and the volume on their speakers — in the fight against suicide. On Thursday, the heavy-metal legends released their rollicking new single, "Screaming Suicide," ...

After a three month break, Rob Harvilla‘s amazing podcast 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s is back, having already gone 30 songs past the show’s title, with the first of what he says will be the final ...

A playlist of songs from artists including Liz Phair, Drake and John Cale that explain our critic’s year. By Lindsay Zoladz In my very first installment of this newsletter, I introduced myself and my ...

The 1970s were loud, messy, and wildly inventive, the kind of decade that refuses to sit quietly in the background. If someone only had room for four tracks to play historian for their kids, those ...

Last week, Lorde returned from a four-year hiatus to release Melodrama. Ahead of the album's release, Lorde sat down with New Zealand's The Spinoff to talk about every song on the album, discuss her ...

Morrissey has never directly explained what the meaning behind this alternative rock classic is. However, The Smiths fans have picked it apart over the years and deduced what it’s likely about. The ...

In the last year or so, when I've been around college students socializing, I've heard them singing along so some horrible 60's-70's song about some girl. (The song is named a girls name, similar to ...

Songs from cultures around the world—from love ballads to lullabies—exhibit some universal patterns, according to a new study of music makers across hundreds of societies that hints at the psychology ...