A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

The defining voice of the disco era was posthumously inducted, honoring the songwriter behind a generation of dance-floor anthems.

De Los, the L.A. Times' Latin culture wing, lists its favorite albums by Latino artists in 2025, including albums by Bad ...

What the saxophone riff was to 2014, the heavy panting sample is to 2025: a little microtrend meant to imply, well, sex on ...

This year's recipients are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss and ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

Young Jonn releases his second album, ‘Blue Disco’, blending introspective lyrics with high-energy Afrobeat production across 21 tracks, featuring standout collaborations from Wizkid, Rema, and more.

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr had the mother of all solo-career conundrums. It’s hard enough building a reputation as a one-man act after leaving a moderately ...

Apparently, the best dance music has come out of Boston. Donna Summer’s 1977 smash hit “I Feel Love” was named the best dance song of all time by Billboard staff. The track, which was included on ...

IT SOUNDS LIKE a typical country tune, for a few seconds at least. “Country Girls Make Do” opens with a toe-tapping beat and twangy strains of fiddles and guitar. You expect a song about whisky or ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

In Stephen King's first novel, 1974's Carrie, he brings up Bob Dylan not just once but several times. "Elsewhere in this book," he writes, "mention is made of a page in one of Carrie White's school ...