Apple today started sharing its "Replay 2022" playlist to Apple Music subscribers. Just like the past few years, this playlist ranks all of the music you've been streaming since the year began, with ...

Inflation. Drought. Long COVID. Six months in, 2022 appears eager to match the chaos of the last few years. Yet, as always, great songs have helped get us through — some old (Kate Bush’s resurrected ...

Whether you heard them on TikTok, on the radio or on a fresh slab of old-fashioned vinyl, new songs helped make sense this year of a world that seemed to need more interpretation with every passing ...

Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama often appeared to be more in tune with the younger voting audience than many of his predecessors, and that still holds true today as the former ...

The Grammys will mark several firsts this year. For the first time, they’re in Las Vegas, because of the pandemic. There are 10 nominees for the top prizes, double the number a few years ago. And for ...

YouTube Music was one of the Android apps that Google said would get tablet optimizations at I/O 2022, and the redesigned playlist interface is now live. The share button is no longer in the top-right ...

Songs about America stretch to every corner of the country, from the lands Woody Guthrie sang about to everywhere between and beyond. This Fourth of July, I wanted to make a musical travelogue. To ...

Between his dramatic “Eroica” Symphony No. 3 and his innovative Fifth, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 seems like an unusual slide backward to lighter standard fare. That’s because a wealthy Count ...

The publisher of Johannes Brahms’s music invited him, in his later years, to revise any of his earlier works. He chose to take a second look at his opus 8 Piano Trio #1 in B-major. The original ...

It’s that time of year again—I’ve removed the decomposing pumpkin from my front porch, my family has watched The Polar Express several times, and my kids ask to walk through the “forest” of lit ...