James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford's 1953 song 'Jock-A-Mo' emerged from New Orleans streets. It drew inspiration from Mardi Gras Indian chants. The song's rhythm and vocal style created an infectious groove.

Regardless of whether he was writing for himself or someone else, Phil Collins kept emotion at the heart of his work, which ...

This week's challenge comes from Jim Francis, of Kirkland, Wash. Think of a famous female singer (8,4). The first syllable of her first name, the second syllable of her first name backward, and last ...

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 ...

Once more to me~ Courage like a gust of wind~” (Jilpoong Gado) These are songs that stick in your ears, roll off the tongue, ...

Spotify has rolled out its 2026 Songs of Summer predictions, listing 30 songs from artists including Zara Larsson, Drake and Ella Langley that its editorial team has named as contenders. Among the ...

Rather than offering up a playlist of thematically linked songs, as I usually do, today I’m giving you five tracks that have ...

We weigh the options and attempt to pick the one song that best captures the Millennial experience, from the dizzying highs of the dot-com boom, when anything seemed possible, to the post-9-11 bust, ...

A new children’s song in the Church’s global hymnbook has layers in the words and melody, explained the author and composer.

ICE anthems breaking the internet — bringing our total to 50, across genres as diverse as folk, pop, punk, country, reggae and rap.

A poem is a piece of writing that expresses a thought, a feeling or a story. World Poetry Day is a day that celebrates poems and all things poetry! It is celebrated every year on 21 March. World ...