From tongue-in-check antics poking fun at the music industry to heartfelt odes to salsa, here's what we loved this year.

While the fruits of his labor in the art-pop outfit Water From Your Eyes are undoubtedly experimental, they are arguably ...

The producer dreamed up TaTa Taktumi and brought her to life with help from the software Suno. She’s arriving at a fraught ...

Unless you have an intense hatred of Hawaiian shirts and/or words that rhyme with lasagna, it’s pretty tough to get mad at ...

A home cook tests recipes from the late rapper’s cookbook, revealing unexpected flavors and creative techniques.

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

In addition to his unique talent and wit, sometimes Weird Al Yankovic is also fueled by Pizzelle’s Confections. Yankovic, the MTV icon and comedy-rock legend, is a fan of Pizzelle’s, a Huntsville, ...

A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift. By Ben Sisario Much ...

In “Atlantic City,” Bruce Springsteen sings “Everything dies, baby that’s a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.” He never could have known that more than 40 years after releasing ...

IT SOUNDS LIKE a typical country tune, for a few seconds at least. “Country Girls Make Do” opens with a toe-tapping beat and twangy strains of fiddles and guitar. You expect a song about whisky or ...

Certain songs transcend a given time frame and a given genre. In other words, they are just songs. Songs that exist and will always be remembered thanks to their enlightening and larger-than-life ...

Welcome to October. As the leaves begin to change colors and drop away from branches, candy gets stockpiled for trick-or-treaters and jack-o'-lanterns are lit from within, its time for a seasonal ...