How Bhakti poetry, Sufi courts, and manuscript cultures together shaped Hindi as a written language. A multilingual, material history of vernacular power—read more.

Over five centuries of composite Bhakti culture back the Ramanandi sect that officiates at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Reformists like Kabir, Meerabai and Tulsidas were among the greats who shared ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. But Swift was a songwriter before she was a star, and she’ll be a songwriter long after she ...

True to their word, the Jonas Brothers made their JONAS20: Greetings From Your Hometown concert a career-spanning, city-specific event. The trio’s kickoff at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New ...

The Bad Guys 2, released on August 1, 2025, in the US, features a soundtrack made up of 40 songs that fans can listen to on Spotify, iTunes, and other music platforms. Here’s a list of all the songs: ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

James Gunn’s Superman had many elements that made it stand out from all the previous DC movies, including a packed soundtrack created by John Murphy and David Fleming, as well as some great songs. The ...

Apple Music launched almost exactly ten years ago now, and in the decade since, it has become a culture-defining streaming platform. Users have logged billions of plays over the years, and now Apple ...

It’s hard to believe, but if you’ve been an Apple Music subscriber since its inception, you’ve been streaming for a full decade. Announced as “One more thing” at WWDC 2015, the service launched on ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

I was too young to get the joke about “Those Were the Days” back then, but it was the most arresting theme song on TV — if that’s even the proper way to categorize its function on the 1970s megahit ...