Gordon Lightfoot's surprise 1976 hit immortalized the Great Lakes shipwreck that happened 50 years ago this month.

The sync and brand business is helping break U.K. artists, such as Olivia Dean, on the world stage and putting known stars ...

Nouvelle Vague is an homage to director Jean-Luc Godard, and Blue Moon centers on lyricist Lorenz Hart, the former creative ...

Bob Marley's music is beloved all over the world, and songs like "I Shot the Sheriff" and "No Woman, No Cry" are among his very best.

This 1970 classic hit by Elton John captures what real love feels like, simple, honest, and timeless enough to still move you today.

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

Rolling Stone’s list of “The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far” is out, and several K-pop songs made the cut! With the first quarter of the 21st century winding to a close, the American ...

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 ...

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. If I were writing a song about Travis Kelce, a man I’ve never met, I would ...

With no concert scheduled in the mainland U.S. within the year besides a few starring turns in the “Saturday Night Live” universe, Bad Bunny is set for a rare live performance on one of the world’s ...

Keith Urban swapped out a romantic song lyric about Nicole Kidman just days before the actress filed for divorce. During a recent concert, Urban, 57, was performing his 2017 song “The Fighter,” ...

A firm favourite topic for Beatles obsessives to kick around during those long-into-the night deliberations is just which of their eleven (we don’t count Magical Mystery Tour or Yellow Submarine, okay ...