A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

This list of NPR Music's best songs of 2023 looks unlike any we've ever made before. It's not just the number of songs that has changed. There are no rankings here — in fact, the 123 songs below ...

A musical memoir of our critic’s 2024, with tracks from MJ Lenderman, Cass Elliot and Women. By Lindsay Zoladz Earlier this week, I shared a massive playlist of some of the best music released in 2024 ...

I am obsessed with the songs I remember the best. The songs whose lyrics immediately come to mind upon the ring of the first chord. The songs I first heard many years ago, and continue to listen to ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

What the hell is yacht rock? Well, the internet has agreed that its defining sonic and aesthetical traits are broad. I’d have to agree, as it’s a sub-genre that stretches into everything from prog and ...