NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped. Lyrics of a song can reach us in ways that no other speech ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

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What a year for music — great songs came out of anywhere, in every style and every genre. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2025, though some gems will appear over on my albums list, to avoid ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

A Western Washington children’s hospital is among the best options for pediatric care in the country. That’s according to The Leapfrog Group, which put MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every chart ...

Macaulay Culkin's childhood was far from perfect, but he's making up for it with the next generation of Culkins. "There's a word that I use in my household, because it's something that I didn't really ...

Did you pick up the guitar as a youngin’ in the 1970s? If you still play the guitar today, you might have been inspired to start decades about by these rock songs from 1974. And even if they didn’t ...

Macaulay Culkin never wants his kids to feel like they're alone. That's why the Home Alone alum has made it his mission to make sure his and partner Brenda Song's sons Dakota, 4, and Carson, 3, know ...