It's the week of April 19, which means we've made it. New Taylor Swift music will hit the airwaves on Friday with the release of The Tortured Poets Department. It's Swift's 11th studio album and has ...

What’s the only thing better than a really good song? A really good football song, of course. The beautiful game has a soundtrack. Some iconic toe-tappers pay tribute to the sport through their lyrics ...

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 ...

Each one of country music's 50 saddest songs is unique, but they all have one important thing in common: They all tell a powerful, tear-jerking story. Some of those stories are on topics that don't ...

Seventy-one tracks that asked big questions, found new kinship between genres and helped us see the good in Ken. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles The album may be imperiled ...

What makes a country song truly depressing? It's the kind of song that doesn't have a silver lining anywhere, no matter how hard you look. In compiling this list of country music's most depressing ...

When Chuck D of Public Enemy famously called hip-hop “the Black CNN,” he was touching on a universal truth that goes beyond genre: Music and protest have always been inextricably linked. For some ...

Whether you’ve seen every single Disney animated movie or never seen a single one, you probably haven’t escaped the music that has become a staple of American, and global, culture. Since the first ...

Christmas tunes are in the air.It’s a great time whether you favor the likes of James Brown’s “Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto or The Temptations’ “Silent Night,” or are into The Emotions’ “What ...