Every generation has a soundtrack that has helped define growing up. For the gen-x crowd, it’s the 1980s. The baby boomer crowd, those born between 1946 and 1964 also had some incredible musical ...

Rosalía's LUX is NPR Music's No. 1 album of 2025. At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks ...

This 1978 track from Magazine was one of the best from the controversial album. “Heartless” opens the record and boasts an almost country-sounding introduction. If you’ve ever been done dirty by an ...

In the wake of a heartbreak, many of us turn to music. Songwriters have been writing about breakups — more specifically the romantic kind — for decades. There is, after all, a lot of varying emotions ...

When you think about it, watching a live band perform is a once in a lifetime experience, and not just in the sentimental sense. Allow Nancy Wilson of Heart to explain. "Because we play completely ...