Today in Music History for Dec. 14: In 1836, Frances Ridley Havergal, English devotional writer, was born. In frail health most of her life, Havergal nevertheless authored such hymns as "Take My Life" ...

Christmas is a time for nostalgia – but plenty of us have apparently been listening to these more modern festive songs, too.

When the music video for this standout track from Gaga's latest album, Mayhem, had its surprise premiere during a commercial ...

Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars today. Read about her hit songs, albums, tours, Grammy Awards, ...

These one-hit wonders from the 1970s are some of the very best, and anyone who was around back then probably knows every word.

Judging by mainstream music in 2025, humankind is not in a particularly creative place. The year’s main storylines included ...

Though 2025 lacked one big beautiful pop story, there were plenty of smaller moments worthy of our notice. Lock in now, and ...

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

Algernon Cadwallader, “Trying Not to Have a Thought”; Amaarae, “Black Star”; Corridos Ketamina, “Corridos Ketamina”; Nick ...

“Chinese Democracy” finally arrived in 2008. Guns N’ Roses burned through ten guitarists and $13m recording the album, and 15 years had passed since the American band’s previous studio offering. By ...

Hey, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame voters, are you listening? How about some consideration for Squeeze? Influential, consistent, long-running, flat-out brilliant: This British band deserves to be there.