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Every generation builds its idea of love on myths—and music is one of the loudest storytellers. Music has always been a ...

While the balladeer doesn’t stray far from his core, he still colors outside the lines, as he does in his cover of “Rainbow” While exploration and experimentation are often seen as essential to ...

Leonard Cohen's Various Positions album was released in 1984 and with it came the song "Hallelujah." The song, though, initially went unnoticed until years later, when it was popularized by ...

The Beatles began with simple, first-person love songs crafted for a teenage audience—but their songwriting matured dramatically over time. From early tracks like “Love Me Do” and “I Want to Hold Your ...

The radical lives of James Baldwin. While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not ...

NEW YORK – Every year, summer arrives with a buzzing energy. School’s out, the sun is shining, music is blaring out of car windows and speakers are blasting on the beach. But this summer, the beaches ...

Every year, summer arrives with a buzzing energy. School’s out, the sun is shining, music is blaring out of car windows and speakers are blasting on the beach. But this summer, the beaches seem ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...

Love is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite things. When she was just 25, she admitted that she had already spent her “whole life tryin’ to put it into words.” From her debut album on, audiences have ...

Traditionally, veteran rock bands wait until they’ve finished a whole new album to release music from that album. They often do it as part of a coordinated campaign, doling out advance tracks little ...