Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...

With more than 250 million Spotify users around the world, it’s not tough to imagine that two people may be listening to the same song at any given moment. You hit play on Run the Jewels’ “Ohh La La.” ...

If you like bands that don’t sit still and repeat themselves, Led Zeppelin would have been on your radar in the 1970s. That came through on the first albums. After its thrashing 1969 debut and ...

In May 1997, both LeAnn Rimes and Trisha Yearwood released a version of the song “How Do I Live” on the same day. Both artists found success with the song, but the incident left them feeling ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

Most people have likely heard someone say this during the course of a music conversation: “I wish I could go back to the first time I heard [insert song].” But does that phrase hold weight? Is there ...

An unlikely yet catchy melody took the Internet by storm in recent weeks, bolstered by the looping, highly meme-able nature of TikTok, the social media platform that brokers in 15 second clips. The ...

Marking one year since Russia started a war with Ukraine, country singer Brad Paisley released “Same Here,” a new song featuring a soundbite from a conversation he had with Ukraine’s President ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Marcus Brown, the musician who records as Nourished By Time. His new album takes inspiration from the working class sounds of Baltimore house music. SUMMERS: This is ...

Once you hear the opening chords of Semisonic’s “Closing Time,” you will likely start to gather up your jackets, move it to the exits. It’s the quintessential closing song; it’s the song that lets you ...

The sibling collaborators will receive Variety's Film Song of the Year award at this weekend's Hitmakers event. Now that the film has been widely seen, they’re unleashed, at last, to discuss every ...