The '60s were a pivotal time for music. The decade began with poppy girl groups and crooners and went on to create what we now know as classic rock. And of course, no discussion of the time is ...

In the early 1970s, Jeff Barry, songwriter behind The Ronettes’ classic “Be My Baby,” The Crystals’ “Da Doo Ron Ron” and “Then He Kissed Me,” “The Chapel of Love” by The Dixie Cups, and many more ’60s ...

We're not going to write you a love song, but we can certainly recommend some. The best love songs evoke feelings across the swinging pendulum of love, from just meeting and getting to know each other ...

This is the first episode of a new series on All Songs Considered, hosted by NPR Music critic Ann Powers and editor. Most of ...

If ever you Google “How to pick the perfect, non-cliché wedding song,” you’ll come up with criteria much like Fred and I used in 1986. We wanted something personal, not generic like the plastic couple ...

November 15 Musical Guest Olivia Dean is a 26-year-old English singer-songwriter whose hit "Man I Need" has gone mega-viral ...

It’s never easy to lose someone you love, especially if you thought that you were going to be with that person forever. Losing someone special can leave you feeling quite sad and confused, and ...

The icon's first rock album 'Rockstar' is due Nov. 17 Dolly Parton will always love Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball." On Friday, the country legend, 77, teamed up with the "Flowers" singer, 30, for a new ...

During his Wednesday, Nov. 5 show at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, N.Y., the musician — whose real name is Shane Michael Boose ...

Hardy vividly recalls his first encounter with the nü-metal troublemakers of Limp Bizkit. “I got home from school and ‘Nookie’ was on ‘TRL,’” he says of the band’s hit from 1999’s seven-times-platinum ...