Paul Simon first recorded "I Am A Rock" solo. But the lonely song truly came to life once he reunited with Art Garfunkel.

If 2025 proved anything, it’s that Pakistani music simply refuses to slow down. The year had everything — pop provocations, rap chest-thumping, quiet emotional reckonings, and no shortage of albums.

Kathleen Brady Ross, or Kathleen as she prefers to be called in the music world, never followed a typical pathway to becoming ...

According to Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Recordings Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970, ...

If you’ve ever written a set of lyrics or a poem, you’ve probably imagined how it might sound as a song. But turning words ...

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John Donne” and goes on to refer to Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman and ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such ...

You’d be forgiven if you can’t hum the 18th-century Cumbrian folk song “Do Ye Ken John Peel.” But in 1942, a version of that ...

This 2019 holiday film drew its inspiration directly from Wham!’s Last Christmas, weaving George Michael’s music into the ...

INSKEEP: That was Lars Gotrich with the song "New Threats From The Soul," by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band. We also heard Anamaria Sayre with Bad Bunny's "DTMF." We'll have more of the best lyrics ...

The screenplay for what would become the eighth film in the series wasn’t finished, but Kass told McCartney it was an ...