She counted 231 songs on her playlist. Each one carries a person, a place — and a reminder that we don’t become ourselves alone.

It broke at pop and country radio stations virtually simultaneously—in fact, it got to No. 1 on the Hot 100 a little faster ...

Flying Lotus. waterbaby. The groovy affirmations of Joshua Idehen. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Nate Chinen from WRTI in Philadelphia about their favorite albums out Friday, March 6. Plus, ...

Rocket Man by Elton John missed being the top spot in the charts, but the loss is perfectly explained in the song's lyrics.

Maybe you played piano as a kid and then stopped when exams, sports, college, and work swallowed your schedule. Maybe you ...

A new book has ranked a 1971 classic as the No. 1 greatest song of all time. Do you agree?

Let's look at the times a great movie has been elevated by the appearance of a killer tune on the soundtrack: everyone from The Doors and The Who to Queen and David Bowie.

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 ...