From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

Bruce Springsteen has plenty of heartbreaking songs, but one of the saddest has to be the title track from his No. 1 album, ...

Originally published in Uncut Take 302 [July 2022], Brian May, Roger Taylor and Adam Lambert pick their 30 favourite Queen songs, from stadium anthems to experimental, eight-minute epics, glam stomps ...

River Cleanup, a global organization dedicated to making rivers plastic free, sponsored 14 events in honor of Call to Earth Day, encouraging volunteers around the world — in Belgium, the Democratic ...

Megan Moroney’s song “Tennessee Orange” is one of her biggest hits to date, with over 425 million streams on Spotify. However, the song has seemingly also garnered a trove of haters. During an ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Benny Blanco has been behind some of the biggest tracks of the past 20 years, including Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and Rihanna's "Diamonds" Julien Hekimian/Getty ; Jerod Harris/Getty ; Unique ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: FX’s Alien: Earth takes everything we know and love about the original Alien movies and gives it a little twist. Instead of following intrepid explorers trapped in a ...

More than 2,300 shrimpers, boat owners and seafood businesses from across the Gulf Coast are suing two companies over an oil spill off Louisiana's coast on Aug. 8, 2022 — the opening day of shrimping ...

Villagers hush when Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai starts singing about climate change, her clear voice rising above the simple squat dwellings. ''We are the people of the south. The winds seem to ...