Over the past 50 years, U.S. pop music lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, and increasingly focused on stress and negative emotions.

Here, five writers with roots and homes across the continent and diaspora sift through a wide world of sounds for some of the ...

Explore every song in Song Sung Blue (2025), the Craig Brewer-directed movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a ...

Claire Sardina, who performed in Lightning & Thunder with Neil Diamond tribute artist Mike Sardina, tells the true story ...

When they connect, the chemistry is instantaneous, and the two quickly become a couple, a singing duo now named Lightning ...

The new film "Song Sung Blue" pays homage to the catalog of Neil Diamond, and it is one worth celebrating. We rank his 10 ...

Filmmaker Craig Brewer of 'Hustle & Flow' returns with a quirky music biopic about a Neil Diamond cover band that opened for ...

HE may come across as a cringeworthy “cool dad”, but there is no denying the commercial power of Barack Obama’s annual list ...

YouTube is filled with AI-generated music videos that blur the lines between reality and art, including from a Jewish mother ...

Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

Ryan is a lifestyle and culture journalist born and raised in the Philippines. He primarily covers film, television, music, and all things pop culture. Beyond writing, you can find him buried in ...