Music has a way of sticking with us in ways that nothing else does. A melody can carry us back decades, a lyric can trigger ...

Day 1 of Evolution Festival this year found Langenberg Field dry and under warm, sunny skies, a pleasant change after last year’s mudfest. Structurally, the event saw some reorganizing of GA and VIP ...

Think you can cover these one-hit wonder songs from the 1970s as well as the original tunes? I'm not confident that's possible.

If Work Permits’ This is the track that brings their second album, “Dog Problems,” to a rousing finish, easing in with a haunting acoustic guitar ...

A former ESPN host admitted that she received "vicious" backlash to her Charlie Kirk tribute on social media. Charlie Kirk, ...

Yacht rock is basically a genre of rock music from the '70s and '80s that's on the soft and smooth side of the spectrum. Think easy listening and more subdued than traditional rock music. It ...

A song about rock that rocks and will let everyone know you rock to rock. But even though this tune is a bit on the nose, Led Zeppelin pulls it off because they are the Platonic Ideal of a classic ...

The biggest song of 2025 is a straightforward ode to marriage, but the charts and algorithms are filled with love songs expressing something messier. This essay first appeared in the NPR Music ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...