Picking the best metal and hard rock songs each year is never an easy task. Unlike pop music, where singles take the spotlight, finding the year’s best heavy tunes can take us off the beaten path. But ...

You're humming along to a song you just heard on the radio, or maybe a jingle from an old commercial. Then, silence falls, but the music plays on... in your head. Welcome to the universal experience ...

If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing in 2023. As the submissions poured in — thousands of them from across the globe — it was clear pretty ...

Every so often, a video of a singer delivering the national anthem goes viral, and not for a good reason. It just happened again. This time, it was country music star Ingrid Andress’ rendition before ...

What were the best hard rock songs of each year of the 1990s? What a decade it was, as we saw the end of hair metal's rule, the dominance of grunge and alternative music, a pop-punk revival and the ...

“Hit Me Hard and Soft,” her third album, is both concise and far-reaching. By Jon Pareles “Twenty-one took a lifetime,” Billie Eilish, 22, sings in “Skinny,” the song that opens her third album, “Hit ...

Last month, indie-rock supergroup the Hard Quartet released their first song, “Earth Hater.” Made up of Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White, the Hard Quartet are announcing ...