This year's best albums came from pop stars of all generations, from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to Charli XCX and Sabrina ...

Christmas songs can give you the feels, but some just make you cringe. From boy bands to chipmunks, here are the 10 worst.

Christmas songs can give you the feels, but some just make you cringe. From boy bands to chipmunks, here are the 10 worst.

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Sales and streaming data helped shape this annual list of the top country songs. In 2024, staff and reader opinion matter as much as ever, but notable live performances can also aide a singer in a ...

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you ...

Brenda Lee was 13 years old at the time of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" — and it was 66 years ago, in 1958.

This year, it felt like a page turned, the skies parted, the windows were flung open wide: Mainstream pop, a field dominated ...

Most of us fall back on a solid Christmas hits collection regardless of our party’s persuasion, but what if we went one louder and gifted you the best Christmas rock songs ever? There’s no ...

She brilliantly used menopause as inspiration for her punk band Genital Panic, and now the hard-howling Twin Cities rock star ...

Bidding farewell to 2024, The Independent’s music critics Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown count down the best albums of the ...

From deep funk cuts to snazzy jazz numbers, the best Thanksgiving ... why aren’t there scores of songs to match? For what is essentially an indulgent dinner party in the middle of the afternoon ...