In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

These love songs — Neko Case's "Oh, Neglect...," Valerie June's "Runnin' and Searchin'" and Olivia Dean's "Man I Need" — each express a refreshingly realistic ambivalence toward romance. This is FRESH ...

Inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Showgirl” single, listen to a playlist of songs that use the tragic “Hamlet” heroine as inspiration. By Lindsay Zoladz When Taylor Swift first released the track list for ...

A good song will stick around for a few months to a year. A great song will last forever. That’s because great songs are crafted in such a way that they allow the vocals of those singing to shine ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Is Brandon Lake the next artist to enter the country music chat? The Christian artist is teasing a new song that sounds very much like something you'd find in any country singer's catalog. In a video ...

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Popular country music as we know it today, like it or not, primarily derives from the principles of one sound, the Nashville Sound. Chet Atkins, the famous producer, is often credited with being the ...

Instagram announced Monday that it’s finally adding the ability for users to listen to previews of songs that they’ve shared from Spotify to Stories. While Instagram has long allowed users to share ...

Coldplay's third album, X&Y, turned 20 two weeks ago. To mark the occasion, the band has dusted off "Speed Of Sound," the album's lead single, which was the band's first American top 10 hit but was ...