2025 marks a strong season of new music releases as the Christmas holiday draws near. Though traditional, year-after-year beloved recordings have a unique way of transforming holiday moments into ...

Sad songs and cold weather go together like hot cocoa and marshmallows. Kacey Musgraves knows what I'm talking about. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHRISTMAS MAKES ME CRY") KACEY MUSGRAVES: (Singing) And every ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

NEW ORLEANS — When you think about music in New Orleans — you probably think of jazz or blues, or maybe funk and bounce. Christmas carols? Not so much. But many musicians in New Orleans have deep ...

In defense of the sad holiday song. By Melissa Kirsch Perusing painkillers at CVS the morning after Thanksgiving, I should not have been surprised by the telltale clattering of horse hooves thundering ...

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Jets' Adam Lowry uses "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter as his goal song, and Dylan Larkin's Red Wings use Eminem's "Without Me" as their goal song. Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Valerie Macon / ...

De Los recently did a team huddle to determine our personal list of best albums, as well as our favorite songs released in 2025. This is not another garden variety Latin genre list, but a highlight ...

While it might be easy to assume that novelty songs are easier to write than sincere ones, “Whisperin’” Bill Anderson—and countless musical comedians and comedic musicians—would disagree. In his ...

Carlos Santana didn’t always worry too much about wooing the pop charts. He and his band Santana delivered a few hit singles here and there, but usually when the audience met them at their ...