From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay. Right about now, music critics are sharing their favorite albums of the year or ...

Last week Cameron Winter, whose band Geese made our favorite album of the year, played a spectacular-looking solo set at Carnegie Hall that Paul Thomas Anderson and Benny Safdie just so happened to be ...

The beauty of love songs, especially love songs in country music, is the feelings they evoke years, and sometimes even decades later. These three country love songs came out in the 1970s, but still ...

If you’ve got Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande on repeat, add these songs from “Rent,” “Hadestown,” “13” and more to the rotation. By Nancy Coleman Nancy Coleman here. I’m a print editor at The Times, ...

One of music's biggest rising stars is headed to Saturday Night Live. When Dean released The Art of Loving's second single in July, she shared that it is a song "about the universe, mother nature, and ...

Rising NASCAR driver Jesse Love Jr. will return to Richard Childress Racing (RCR) for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, continuing behind the wheel of the No. 2 Chevrolet with Whelen ...

Like Mariah Carey, Willie Nelson is getting into the holiday spirit before even Halloween as the country legend has shared his festive new ballad “Christmas Love Song.” The tender track finds Nelson ...

Riley Green set the country music world ablaze when he dropped his sultry single "Worst Way." The song not only left no crumb when it came to Green's intentions, but it also came with a spicy music ...

Limp Bizkit are officially back with new music, releasing a track that was recently teased through a TikTok drummer called "Making Love to Morgan Wallen." For some fans, the track is going to sound a ...

Love is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite things. When she was just 25, she admitted that she had already spent her “whole life tryin’ to put it into words.” From her debut album on, audiences have ...

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“He [Rogers] was there in the studio and I went up to him and said, ‘I’m a songwriter and I’d love to play you a song I wrote for you,” recalled Marx of his first meeting with Rogers. “And he should ...