Tuning into the media often felt nightmarish this year, whether you got your news from the morning paper or the sleepless churn of Facebook and Twitter: a president with the temper and attention span ...

Looking for a common thread for the best rap songs of 2017, it almost seems more daunting than it really is. There is tremendous diversity there, so much so that it seems almost like they have nothing ...

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Falease - "Come Up in a Minute" Recommended if you like: Rap that puts an equal amount of focus on lyrics and melody Ohio rapper Falease has a potential breakout hit on his hands with “Come Up in a ...

Freed from the daily pressures of the presidency, Barack Obama seems to have filled the time with reading and music. As he did during his time in office, Obama listed off what books and songs he's ...

It’s the end of the year, and here come the lists! It’s incredibly hard to whittle it down to just 10 songs so we decided to take some freedom and instead give you our Favorite 17 songs of 2017 as ...

The beloved neo-soul pioneer and R&B innovator is dead at 51 after a prolonged, personal cancer battle. With that in mind, we continue our year-end hoorah before transitioning into 2018 by saluting ...

NPR Music's list of the 100 best songs of 2017. Margo Price's debut was full of fierily raucous drinking songs, but this year's All American Made digs far deeper, delving into America's dark ...

In a year full of disasters, both natural and man-made, music seemed to be the one place where unpredictability was actually a good thing. From the flute rap to post-modern rock poetry, artists took ...

Yesterday, Spotify revealed year-end stats for 2017, and today Pandora did the same. Their third annual “Top Thumb Hundred” — a list of the most thumbed-up songs of the year — is out now… Against Me!

NPR Music's list of the 100 best songs of 2017. There's a tension in the sound of Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles — classical versus pop, baroque versus modern — with Rachel's mysterious violin set ...