Swap art history lectures for figure skating competitions. We are ringing in the Olympic year with a look back at 18 ...

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The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood discuss how, for thirty years, they've crafted the visuals that helped define Yorke’s band, many of which are now on view at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.

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Sleigh bells have long acted as convenient shorthand for composers to tell their listeners that this piece belongs to the ...

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NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...