As the leader of the Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde wrote, sung and recorded some of the most memorable songs of the 1980s. More ...

Amy Friedl's "Christmas at the Paramount," slated for Saturday, Dec. 13, mixes traditional and contemporary Christmas songs.

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

This is paradise as Joscelin Dent-Pooley conjures it on his second album as Jerskin Fendrix, more or less as he experienced ...

As the news of Michael Jackson’s forthcoming biopic continues to take over the social media timelines, many people are using it as an excuse to revisit Jackson’s extensive discography. From his early ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

Forty years ago, Michael J. Fox climbed into a stainless-steel, gull-winged time machine and rocketed Back to the Future for the very first time. Watching that DeLorean roll out of Doc Brown’s van ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...

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 ...

Music has always been one of the most powerful ways to express love. This is not just a modern phenomenon. The first known love song dates back to 2000 B.C., titled “The Love Song of Shu-Sin.” Whether ...