Just like that, 2025 has come to a close. It has been another year of brilliant music: lets be honest, it's hard to have a ...

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Here, five writers with roots and homes across the continent and diaspora sift through a wide world of sounds for some of the ...

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex ...

Billie Lourd marked nine years since her mom Carrie Fisher's death on Dec. 27. Fisher died in 2016 at the age of 60 after ...

Decades before George and Dhani worked together, the elder Harrison also wrote two songs about his son during his early childhood.

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Coldplay finally wrapped its 3 ½-year Music of the Spheres stadium marathon, setting a record for the highest-grossing tour by a band (it hit the billion mark last year and added nearly $465 million ...

Stand in your truth, Cancer. Remember all that you’ve done to reach this moment. The inner mountains you’ve climbed, and the wounds that you’ve healed. There isn’t anything more that you need to do to ...