I need your help. I want to do my own Extremely Scientific Survey of the saddest songs you’ve ever heard. Bonus points if they make you cry. Why do we enjoy songs that make us cry? It seems like the ...

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“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...

In defense of the sad holiday song. By Melissa Kirsch Perusing painkillers at CVS the morning after Thanksgiving, I should not have been surprised by the telltale clattering of horse hooves thundering ...

Declaring one Christmas song to be more annoying than all others is a brazen act, given the sheer number of terrible Christmas songs that exist. Let’s get a few of the obvious offenders out of the way ...

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 ...

"Hold on tight, the train is moving..." Paradise City Sales has debuted their official promo trailer for A Sad and Beautiful World, a Lebanese film set in Beirut about a love story spanning three ...

Mavis Staples is a warrior. A central figure in the Civil Rights movement, at 86 years old Staples’ determination and resolve is not in the least bit diminished. Setting age aside, it’s not the most ...

From hours-long symphonies to a track still playing for decades, here is a look at the world's longest song ever recorded. Most songs you hear today run between three and five minutes, with even the ...

The song has been streamed over 3 million times in under a month. A song created through artificial intelligence has made history topping a Billboard country music chart, but it has also sent ...

The much-garlanded Staples is a bridge between now and then, and Sad and Beautiful World, her first album since 2019’s We Get By, shows her to be as relevant and contemporary as ever; a timeless ...

Mavis Staples ‘ latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto. “Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly ...