As Black History Month gets underway, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is asking us to listen deeply. "People of African descent — no matter where we are, wherever we've been — we've been in, ...

There are so many songs in the world that it can be difficult to remember them all. Even just a quick glance at your phone or laptop and you’ll see that you have access to more music than you could ...

The Cure have won Best Alternative Music Album for Songs of a Lost World at the 2026 Grammys. They beat out the category’s other nominees Bon Iver (SABLE, fABLE), Hayley Williams (Ego Death at a ...

Duck encourages Shark to dance in his show called The Dancing Duck Bonanza. When Shark comes up on land, he flops all over the stage! Can Duck find a way to put on his show and include Shark? Later, ...

Madonna. Prince. Cher. Elvis. When you’re known by a single name, you know you’ve got something going. The same is true for songs. Sometimes a song can boast a long title, something that uncoils off ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

Ah, the 1970s—a decade of bell-bottoms, disco balls, and some of the catchiest songs that still echo through our minds today. Whether you were grooving in the backseat of your parents’ car or belting ...

The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

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 ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...