Behind beautiful melodies and iconic choruses are stories of grief, addiction, death, regret, and loss that often go ...

It was a fragile psychological state. The result was that he had almost no recollection of having recorded the song or the ...

The standout act in the sprechgesang wave, the four-piece’s newly expansive sound carries singer Florence Shaw’s distinctive tales of mundane lives spiralling out of control ...

Late co-founder always felt that collaborating was like “two people painting a picture on the same canvas.” But that didn’t stop him succeeding ...

Songs Annotated' collects lyrics from, and brief reflections on, 365 different Mountain Goats songs. Catholicism saturates his lyrics, which include references to saints, heretics, the rosary and the ...

A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi ...

It was a fragile psychological state. The result was that he had almost no recollection of having recorded the song or the ...

iconic rockers who battled through addiction, mental illness and tragedy to lay down some of rock's most timeless music ...

Some British bands found a vast new fanbase Stateside, while other seminal acts failed to crack America. What gives?

Stranger Things gave Running Up That Hill new meaning for Gen Z. How Max's story transformed Kate Bush's 1985 classic into a ...

NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped.

Song Sung Blue, based on a true story, stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a down-on-their-luck couple who form a Neil ...