Brandi Carlile offers track-by-track background and commentary on all 10 songs from 'Returning to Myself,' including 'Church ...

Any mayor of New York City ought to know the basics of Billy Joel. To help candidate Zohran Mamdani, who recently revealed ...

For this week's Story Behind the Song, we hear from Tia Sillers and Mark D. Sanders about how the song came to fruition.

A group of artists from upstate New York recently took their love of Stewart's to a new level by writing and filming a music ...

The story behind the surprisingly catchy hold music at Social Security that millions have heard – and plenty even love.

Feeling those Monday blues? Let Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Pearl Jam lift you up with the kind of energy you ...

Because of their lyrical content, many folk songs double as life lessons. Revisit three history-making folk hits that teach ...

“Those gigs were wild,” recalls Chris Turpin, nursing the remains of an iced black coffee, shades on in the Soho watering ...

NPR editor Barrie Hardymon and producer Marc Rivers talk about the joy of loving movies everyone else loves to hate.

I remember the absolutely sick cover of the 1976 album Spitfire, but I completely forgot about this hefty hit from that album, the delightful soft rock tune “With Your Love”. This tune, written by Vic ...

“Is the Department of Justice acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?” Welker asked. “The president is allowed to have opinions about the law enforcement of the ...