Fifty years ago, Lebanese singer Fairuz released a song that stirred hope and national pride. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to music journalist Danny Hajjar about its enduring significance.

While I was playing in public, she came up and asked if I could play an Arabic song. I gave it a try — and her reaction made the moment unforgettable. Music really has no borders, especially when it's ...

Discord is one of the best gaming chat services, and one of the reasons for it is that it allows me to use bots to assist me in running my servers. They can perform a host of different chores, ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

While playing in public, she asked me to play her favorite Arabic song. I gave it a try — and her reaction was something I’ll never forget. Music truly connects across cultures. Canada's Florida ...

On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. According to Billboard’s "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, the No. 1 song in the U.S. is "Walk My Walk" by Breaking ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

The new KATSEYE song “Gnarly” is a frontrunner for most polarizing pop song of 2025 — and its existence is proof we're so back. There are so many ways to make an impactful pop hit: you could go for ...

1975 arrived just like any other year. But by the time the 12 months of the decade's middle ended, popular music was moving toward a different place than where it had started. Along with the ...

The Arabic and Hebrew music landscape has been shaken up dramatically by the Israel-Hamas war — first by shock, then silence, and now a burst of new songs. Israeli music critic Einav Schiff and ...

Songs show up everywhere these days: appended to sports highlights and TikToks, piped into political rallies and Paneras, interpolated during sermons. This ubiquity often trivializes music, but it ...