Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays ...

Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. But Swift was a songwriter before she was a star, and she’ll be a songwriter long after she ...

Vocals, choreography, charm, style, and good looks—those are just some of the elements that make up the ultimate boy band. Throughout music history, the world has seen boy bands evolve in every era, ...

SUNRISE, Fla. – Two years ago, Roger Daltrey said he doubted The Who would ever tour North America again. He was almost correct. Daltrey and fellow Who mastermind Pete Townshend kicked off what will ...

Ozzy Osbourne, the self-styled Prince of Darkness, has long been a towering figure in the world of heavy metal, from his ominous beginnings fronting Black Sabbath in the late ’60s to his scintillating ...

What do Metallica's band members think is the greatest song of all time? It seems like a simple question, but the mind starts racing with thousands of possibilities. Put on the spot during a recent ...

I was too young to get the joke about “Those Were the Days” back then, but it was the most arresting theme song on TV — if that’s even the proper way to categorize its function on the 1970s megahit ...

After almost six hours of FireAid, Lady Gaga ended the historic Los Angeles event by debuting her new song “All I Need Is Time” co-written with her fiance Michael Polansky, an upbeat number that she ...

During the 2020-2021 run of his Best of Nashville-winning Sunday morning series First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder, streamed live from The Purple Building in East Nashville, Todd Snider recorded ...

Cars have been immortalized in popular culture since the American automotive and music industries had their coincidental heydays in the mid-20th century. The peak of the muscle car era intersected ...

There is no platonic definition of a good cover version of a well-loved song. A good cover can be an enthusiastic celebration of the original, a rendition that highlights the very things that stir ...

Misery loves company, and that company is usually the most emo song imaginable — one that plunges into the depths with you to reach a greater catharsis, rather than just whine. That’s what the best ...