From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

Featuring a videogame commercial song, a Janet Jackson interpolation, one beloved indie-rock guy covering another, and a ...

Zane Lowe, the most important music interviewer working today, kicked his sneakers up onto his couch cushions and began to cry.

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and more.

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I’m about to interview Hayley Williams but I need to switch gears. Two days ago, Steph Curry dropped a 49-piece on the San ...

Musicals Week began with the all-new Dance Relay and ended on Paddington’s ballroom debut. But who would battle it out in this year’s penultimate dance-off? And who would miss out on the semi-final?

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To be a Garland fan is to have the illusion that you can save her from the wounds of the world, even as her voice ...

Lana Condor subverts expectations with a spiky performance as a Jordon Hudson-inspired suspect caught in Elsbeth’s crosshairs.

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