Few things in the world have the power to unite the way music does. For Karen Chester-Amengor, that truth has been the leitmotif of her life. She comes by it honestly. Her late grandmother and mother ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The history of American patriotic songs offers a lesson about the different ways you can say you love your country. Patriotic music is also a story of cultural independence. Well into ...

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Balendra Shah, Nepal’s youngest prime minister, has been sworn in after his party’s landslide election victory following protests led by young people that toppled the government in September. A rapper ...

A kaleidoscope of sounds to let the good times roll. Part wax. Part digital. Pure heat. Must Listen is KCRW’s weekly music discovery series, inviting artists and cultural tastemakers to choose one ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

At age 6, Steve Cohen had already developed a coping mechanism to get him through “tough moments” he encountered: He would start singing to himself. And, lo and behold, when that tough moment was over ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader has died at 82. Here’s what to know about his brilliant career and crushing addiction. By Rob Tannenbaum In Sly & the Family Stone’s prime, from 1968 to 1973, the ...

When you produce a song, it’s generally a collaborative effort. There may be someone who produces drums because they are well, the sh*t with them 808s or someone can play keys or there’s producers who ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

Our 100 favorite songs from a year where pop was really back in full effect. As we build toward the 2024 Billboard Music Awards on Dec. 12 and Billboard’s Year-End Charts reveal on Dec. 13, check out ...