Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Legendary R&B singer D’Angelo died on Oct. 14. He was 51. TMZ reported that the singer’s death came after a battle with ...

Jeffrey Alan Woodley, a hairstylist with clients that included Diahann Carroll, Halle Berry, Whitney Houston, Pam Grier, Aretha Franklin, Angela Bassett, Denzel Washington and Eddie Murphy, has died.

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

The ’80s were chock full of memorable music videos. Moreover, this was the era that popularized the use of visual elements in music making. Ever since the ’80s, we’ve been music video-obsessed.

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

1987 was a strong year for music. An impressive list of enduring hits were released during this year, making it a rolodex of sonic influences for subsequent artists to flip through. Despite being ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Jody Gunderson, a long-serving ...