Stream a Spotify playlist below as well as thoughts from Anne! I love holiday weekends in Los Angeles. It’s the closest we ever get to tumbleweeds blowing down any LA thoroughfare. Over the July 4 ...

Christmas songs can quickly puncture the spirit of the season with deep rancor. NHPR’s Sean Hurley found this out for himself, when he decided to compose a new Christmas carol. Sean's song, “The ...

My favorite holiday song is, "The Little Drummer Boy," because I think it is a good Christmas song. I also have the movie. In the movie he was playing his drum to Jesus and he was singing the song to ...

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's romantic musical La La Land is already off and running this award season. After sweeping the Golden Globes (winning the most awards for one movie in the show's history), ...

From November 1 onward to New Year’s Day, we Americans are inundated with the background sounds of the most wonderful time of the year. For some, its fa-la-la-la f–k off, with a quarter of retail ...

Just over three years ago, I wrote about Yo La Tengo’s 20 best songs. (For accuracy’s sake it could’ve been called “one man’s 20 favorite Yo La Tengo songs,” but that wouldn’t work as well on Google.) ...

I Love LA does it the big way from the start with its super great vibes! In case you have watched the first two episodes, you ...

A version of this story about “La La Land” composers first appeared in the Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. The most acclaimed movie musical since “Chicago,” Damien Chazelle’s ...

Rosalía briefly touched upon the song during her interview with Joe Coscarelli and Jon Caramanica on The New York Times Popcast. While discussing “La Perla,” the singer said, “There’s always a villain ...

I don’t know if “Drug Test” was a college radio hit in 1989 but it should’ve been. It’s catchy in a classical sense, like something Jackson Browne could’ve written, and it has a bit of edge with the ...