Fire up those grills and pack the beach blankets because it’s summertime and like the popular song says, “The livin’ is easy.” We just checked the forecast and it looks like nothing but good vibes for ...

Days spent on the sand are finally here, but your packing list isn’t complete without the best summer songs to set the mood. The thing is beach songs can sound like anything you want. Ukuleles and ...

What is a summer song? Is it a song about the season itself or is it a song that played in the background during all the good times in the sun? The answer, of course, is that a summer song can be both ...

The Song of the Summer—that annual title typically given to the track universally blared out of car windows, in the background of commercials, at backyard barbecues, in clubs and bars, from personal ...

When the summer season kicked off, with pools opening and schools closing, we looked at what makes a song a summer song. For some, it’s a song that was released in the summer and became the background ...

Sometime between the April showers and the arrival of the cicada buzzsaw, I start thinking about my summer playlist. But there are also the mainstays, the songs that conjure up specific memories ...

When you think back to last summer, what song do you think of? Is it the Ariana Grande–Nicki Minaj collab "Side to Side," which played at beaches all along the coast and barbecues across the nation?

Songs of the summer are, in fact, much like summer itself — starry-eyed and full of promise at first, before the months pass and everything starts to feel sticky, stale and oppressively heavy. Earlier ...

The song of summer no longer exists. At least since social media became our governing body and radio stations our smart college professor whose office hours we only attend once a month, it's been ...

Over the past year, Atlanta singer Summer Walker has steadily solidified herself as one of the premiere rising acts in R&B with a voice that has the ability to translate all the uncertainty, agony, ...