The Oakland-based experimental artist Chrystia Cabral, a.k.a. SPELLLING, resists genre categorization in a way that allows ...

What the saxophone riff was to 2014, the heavy panting sample is to 2025: a little microtrend meant to imply, well, sex on ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

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Apple Music unveils its 2025 Year End Charts led by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ hit “APT.” plus major showings from Kendrick Lamar, ...

The 1980s were an interesting time for country music. The genre was slowly shifting from the pop-leaning Nashville Sound production style of the late 1970s into the honky tonk-heavy sound of the 1990s ...

Adele wrapped her Las Vegas residency in 2024 by saying, "I don't know when I'm next going to perform again." She's confirmed her desire to stretch artistically by making her acting debut in the ...

Have you ever wondered about the time and energy that go into songwriting? Some masterpieces take months to create, while others are finished within a few hours. Whether just the lyrics, the melody, ...

A 23-year-old pop culture mystery has finally been solved. Kelly Rowland has confirmed the bizarre method she used to text Nelly in the music video for their hit 2000s song, Dilemma. Yet Nelly never ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

Ocean City, Maryland, has a full schedule of events planned for the fall 2025 season. Major music events include the Oceans Calling Festival, Country Calling Festival, and the new Rising Tides ...

Benson Boone’s latest song cover has got the internet buzzing positively. The 23-year-old Beautiful Things crooner gave a surprise performance of Adele’s 2015 hit song When We Were Young. This song ...