One of the year's first Florida fairs, festivals featuring food, drink and music, and more January events in Sarasota, ...

FROM music legends like Ozzy to literary icons such as Jilly Cooper, 2025 saw the loss of many beloved celebrities. Here The ...

He was definitely experimental. It wasn’t as if he played just rock, blues or jazz – he foraged a different line. To me he ...

As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and 1957’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” respectively.

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats. Credit...Illustration by ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

Plenty of games are challenging enough, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying to make them even more challenging via unconventional means. We’ve seen Dark Souls 2 beaten by someone using a guitar ...

I love that every time a relatively hard game is released, such as Hollow Knight: Silksong, we will always have some players who enjoy increasing and pushing its difficulty even further (only to make ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...

Love is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite things. When she was just 25, she admitted that she had already spent her “whole life tryin’ to put it into words.” From her debut album on, audiences have ...

Songs about boyfriends can help us better communicate our feelings to those we love. Underrated pop star Sara Bareilles once said, “I’m not going to write you a love song ’cause you asked for it,” but ...

Love Island USA has been one of the hottest shows of the summer, and Spotify saw an uptick in user-generated playlists inspired by the Peacock dating series. The streamer reports that since the ...