This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

“A good question opens the whole room,” says Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters.

The new film "Song Sung Blue" pays homage to the catalog of Neil Diamond, and it is one worth celebrating. We rank his 10 ...

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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 ...

Barack Obama released his 2025 list of favorite books, movies and music, a White House-era tradition followed closely by fans and publishers.

Meanwhile, clubs kept clubbing, festivals kept bumping, dance artists, agents and promoters pushed into new spaces, dance ...

YOU heard ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ when you started your supermarket shop in the fruit and veg aisle an hour ago, ...

In the midst of all the political turmoil of 2025, there came a song that gave us hope. “Golden,” released in early July off the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack, debuted at No. 81 on the Billboard Hot ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...