Sometimes all it takes is one well-placed line or a sudden plot twist to turn just about any country song into a sad tear-jerker.

Singer Wayne Wonder recently received a plaque marking the platinum certification of his hit song, No Letting Go, in the United Kingdom. It was presented to him by the British Photographic Industry ...

since it was inspired by the 2003 SARS epidemic. As a deadly virus spreads through the world, medical researchers have to work around the clock to try to contain and find a cure for this unknown ...

I would have given anything to hear “Sussudio” — instead, we got Phil Collins in a backwards Kangol hat and the world’s saddest cargo ... at an older genre of music, but then Latifah ...

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, a new book from the journalist Liz Pelly, the playlist is the ...

Mala Emde plays Vera Brandes, the 18-year-old music promoter without whom Keith Jarrett's celebrated piano recording, ‘The Köln Concert,’ might not have happened.

In February 1975, exactly 50 years ago, Black Sabbath were working on their sixth studio album Sabotage. It would become one ...

The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

From Willie Nelson and Marvin Gaye to Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Olivia Rodrigo, we ranked the best breakup albums of ...

Documentary “All I Had Was Nothingness," which looks at the making of “Shoah,” has its world premiere at the Berlin Film ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

The Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt said that this surprising pop hit is the best song of the 21st century thus far.