The Netherlands’ guttersnipe answer to French chanson and German schlager is as popular as ever – but has it lost its roots as the defiant voice of the working class? Our writer sways along at the Muz ...

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Rolling Stone staffers pick their favorite albums of 2025, from Bad Bunny to Clipse to Rosalia to Taylor Swift to Wednesday to Geese to Lady Gaga ...

Matt Mitchell On our worst songs list earlier this week, I called “Ordinary”—arguably 2025’s most painfully bland hit—the ...

A couple of years ago, Sunil Sarath Perera published a collection of essays titled ‘Mathaka Nimnaya,’ or ‘The valley of ...

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Rafi was born to a Punjabi family and his father was a respected figure in the village with henna dyed hair and beard ...

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BANNED from driving and down on his luck, Chris Rea could not afford the train fare home from London to Middlesbrough for ...

Here is a look back at some of the most significant cultural losses of 2025, and the legacies that continue long after the ...

Before BTS made K-pop mainstream globally, there was me: a teenager from the United States who fell in love with Indonesian music and became a Sahabat NOAH, the equivalent of BTS’s Army.