From unexpected pop pivots to reflections on the state of the world, these are the essential songs of the year.

MTV kick-started a new era of music and pop culture in 1981, when it went on air for the first time, emblematically playing ...

MTV’s international music channels will shut down by year’s end, marking the end of an era for the network that once shaped ...

U.K. producer Tourist has been teasing a trance project for awhile, and his new LP, Music Is Invisible, delivers the goods.

MTV kickstarted a new era of music and pop culture in 1981, when it went on air for the first time, emblematically playing ...

Just two blocks away from Sather Gate, a crowd of people gathered outside the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Some ...

"... we both implicitly trust each other and it's rare for both of us," says Justine Dorsey, one-half of the rising trip-pop ...