We asked and you answered. Earlier this month, we opened the polls and invited All Songs Considered's listeners to tell us their top 5 records of the year. We tabulated all of the ballots, determined ...

Mariah Carey, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Christmas," dominates the airwaves every December with her hit holiday song, "All I Want for Christmas Is You." In December 2024, Carey was performing in ...

The Oakland-based experimental artist Chrystia Cabral, a.k.a. SPELLLING, resists genre categorization in a way that allows ...

Bollywood songs are more than just a part of cinema—they are part of the emotional vocabulary of an entire nation. For more ...

One of this year’s best music books, Songs in the Key of MP3 by Liam Inscoe-Jones, paints a picture of musicians of the ...

If you want to love owning your music again, Musicolet is also worth a shot. It's a lightweight, ad-free music player for Android that plays locally stored audio files and is known for its ...

One day, my wife said she was canceling her Apple Music subscription, and I followed her out the door. I had been plotting my ...