From rock to soul ... songs from the decade. The best 70s songs? It’s an impossible task, surely. There was simply too much going on throughout the world to accurately reflect the best music ...

Sam Cooke invented soul music as we ... to “Chain Gang.” Best of all is the rendition of one of his greatest hits, “Bring It on Home to Me.” The band begins the song with Albert “June ...

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This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2017. Fellow New Jersey music diehards, this is it — the ultimate Garden State music bucket list: 51 Jersey albums that wholly define our ...

CHARLES WIGG WALKER: I think these songs will do that because when I listen to them now, it does lift me up. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "(FEELS LIKE) THINGS ARE COMIN' OUR WAY") WALKER: (Singing) And now the ...

Ahead of Sunday’s 67th Grammys, here’s a ranked list of all 66 songs that have won record of the year since the Recording ...

So, on this slow January release day, NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and WRTI's Nate Chinen catch you up on the best albums we heard in December in between "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and ...

What makes a country song truly depressing? It's the kind of song that doesn't have a silver lining anywhere, no matter how hard you look. In compiling this list of country music's most depressing ...

Tom Petty may have had some of the greatest songs in heartland rock, but there are some tunes in his catalogue that don't deserve to be repeated.

As rap music continues to evolve, we look forward to the future and appreciate the past. These are the greatest rap songs of all time ... old or B) never liked rap anyways. And the former can be ...

In the 1960s, Sam Moore was one half of soul music's most explosive duo ... "What do you mean you had no act?" asked Mason. "All we did is go out there and sing and preach and scream," said ...