The Weeknd’s concept album about death is dark, banal and self-absorbed, yet there is no denying his talent. Plus, Gary Kemp ...

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Scottish musician Patrick Doyle is an acclaimed composer of over 60 feature film scores with many attendant accolades, ...

Song of Songs is a mosaic of love poems which has a loosely defined plot. The original text does not include indications for each speaker, but most translations include notes naming the Bride and ...

Last year, the former Girls leader Christopher Owens came back from a number of harrowing life experiences with I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair, his first solo album in a long time. The record ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...

David Ehrlich is the Reviews Editor and Head Film Critic at IndieWire. Based in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, their two young children, and a crushing amount of anxiety that he treats ...

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering hefty financial incentives for nearly all civilian full-time federal workers to resign as part of plans to drastically shrink the size of ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...

Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big ...