The right ’70s song does more than trigger nostalgia, it feels like it could drop into a 2025 playlist without missing a beat ...

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

Behold the top 12 holiday songs Portlanders felt deserved a deeper Shazam exploration. Fast-paced, cheerful, and packed with ...

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.

The Oakland-based experimental artist Chrystia Cabral, a.k.a. SPELLLING, resists genre categorization in a way that allows ...

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new ...

Brandon Blue is an open format DJ in Dallas, often found spinning at neighborhood spots like Double Ds. He mainly uses Spotify to discover new music, and this year his wrapped crowned Don Toliver, and ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Long before streaming services, music videos, and on-demand playlists, television was one of the primary ways Americans discovered new music. For Baby Boomers, weekly music TV shows weren’t just ...

Perhaps a wise prophet named Addison Rae sums it up best: "So I put my headphones on / Listen to my favorite song." And, boy, ...

Scottish pop culture from Lewis Capaldi, Calvin Harris, Young Fathers and Franz Ferdinand to good old Deacon Blue, Idlewild, Mogwai and Garbage. But will they over the next four days feature in this ...