Jake and Amy's first kiss happens when they're undercover. And while that kiss ignited something between them, the heat was ...

For many, getting to California is the whole point of traveling the Mother Road. As the iconic highway marks its centennial ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

It’s the exhilarating noise of Jersey music. The state’s music community is varied, expansive, passionate and largely based in the Asbury Park area. The year just passed was rich with new original ...

Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library and plans to release it through torrents. Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive ...

Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey seemingly just confirmed that they are working on a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday ...

For the past three years, Father John Misty has performed a Big Sur Park School Benefit at Sunset Cultural Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA. In the past, he's uploaded the live shows to Bandcamp by ...

UCR's list of Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025 shows that the genre remains anything but predictable. There are a trio of duets, including one that was tossed off in less than a month and another that was a ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.