With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, ...

To celebrate its 75th season, the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset has booked the most shows in decades, with 39 ...

The latest season of Saturday Night Live felt transitional in many ways, but it was full of blockbuster pop stars, ...

R&B in the 1970s was a defining era—one where soul, funk, blues, and disco converged to shape the sound of a generation. Solo stars like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and Donna ...

MUNA. Stephen Sanchez. Lykke Li. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Celia Gregory from WNXP in Nashville about their favorite albums out Friday, May 8. Plus, a handful of NPR Music writers and ...

Here are the 31 best rock and metal songs of the 2020s, from 2020 to 2025. The decade is already half over and the deeper we get, the more clearly we all see who the next big bands are and will be, in ...

The 2026 Billboard Women in Music Impact honoree's "Folded" is a week away from radio history. By Trevor Anderson After a previous pair of runner-up results, Kehlani achieves their first No. 1 on ...

A wave of 2026 playlists is merging R&B, soul, and chillout styles across platforms like Spotify and SoundCloud. Offerings range from Tagalog R&B collections to deep lounge mixes and ambient ...

But who else made the cut? By Gil Kaufman It was 20 years ago today that Spotify began to play. And to mark the streaming service’s big anniversary, for the first time ever on Thursday (April 23) ...

In addition to new features for Google’s new music production tool, ProducerAI is already getting a name change to Google Flow Music. ProducerAI joined Lyria 3 as an additional music generation tool ...

Between massive tours from rap stars like Kendrick Lamar to the exciting rise of Dallas’ own BigXThaPlug, last year was a standout moment for hip-hop and R&B music in North Texas. This year hasn’t ...