NPR Music's classical critic shares his favorite records of the year, spanning a wide range of genres, from experimental folk to operatic pop to recordings featuring harp and pipe organ.

Some of the best local musicians in San Diego are throwing holiday concerts this week on stages throughout the county.

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Hundreds of songs have received Golden Globe nominations for best original song since the award was introduced at the 19th ...

Whether it was a puppet band singing Christmas songs to make money for gifts, a family trying to find out who’s killing off ...

KC and the Sunshine Band, racism, instrumental songs, forgettable melodrama, good to great FM radio fodder, and a Bowie ...

Even if you heard these songs from the 1970s multiple times, you might have missed the shocking lyrics hidden within.

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but ...

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...

Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, England-founded quartet pioneered heavy metal music with songs like “War ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade was ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...