"Rein Me In” by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean is now one of just two singles to log 13 or more weeks at No. 1 in the U.K. without making the top 10 on the Hot 100.

AI remixes exist in a legal gray area. It took me all of 30 seconds to generate an AI clone of Kendrick Lamar’s voice for a “Not Like Us”–style diss track against the color blue. And it was just as ...

"The Star Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix and "One of These Days" by Pink Floyd are among the all-time greatest rock instrumentals.

Over 1,000 have climbed to the top of the Billboard pop chart in the USA. Only 25 of them have been instrumental. Here's a look from the silly to the sublime.

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

The lyrics may argue the dancefloor is dead, but this funny, wilfully plasticky new single isn’t the total about-turn from Brat that fans expected Last month, Charli xcx began the media campaign for ...

Founded in 1959 by Berry Gordy, Motown ultimately became the world’s biggest independent producer of 45-rpm records and one of the most successful Black-owned businesses in American history. A quick ...

In CUriosity, experts across the CU Boulder campus answer questions about humans, our planet and the universe beyond. Stephanie Choi, assistant professor of ethnomusicology at CU Boulder and a K-pop ...

With a new season of “Bridgerton” comes a fresh list of instrumental pop music that reimagines the soundtrack of the regency era. While Season 3’s most memorable cover was undeniably Pitbull’s “Give ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

We’re told that AI was inescapable in pop music this year, but I escaped just fine. In July, when journalists revealed that the Velvet Sundown, a rising new rock quartet on Spotify, was, in fact, a ...