We’ve got the songs for you. Spooky, yet fun, with obscure themes, great beats, and a little hint of nostalgia for a classic 90s Scooby-Doo movie. As the unofficial queen of Halloween ...

Often, writing the song is just as cathartic an experience for the artist as it is for a listener to hear it, and there's something comforting in knowing that heartbreak happens to the best of us.

Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” has remained an absolute classic since its inception. Given its continued widespread popularity there’s no denying the impact the song has had ...

Putting words to music can lead to immortality. Unfortunately, not all sentiments expressed in songs deserve to live forever. Systemic racism has been known to work itself into music, via lyrics ...

October 18, 2024 • NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious ...

The analysis’s authors used Lyrics Translate, an online library of song translations, as their starting point, and looked at 627,000 individual translations of over a quarter of a million ...

Getting dressed up in a scary costume and heading to a Halloween party is fun no matter how old you are ... of the very best kid-friendly Halloween songs. There’s kindie-rock darlings, sing ...

When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s ... slightly arbitrary lists fun to make, but holy shit ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...

Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big ...

The sultry, flirty soundtrack accompanies the two’s magnetic bond. Heartbreak anthems from Olivia Rodrigo, a love song from Rihanna and even a few bat mitzvah bangers round out the 10-episode ...

This list is updated monthly with new “Best of the Year”–worthy songs. Whoever invented the phrase “dog days of summer” clearly never thought of 2024’s seasonal music onslaught.