A few years ago, Paste looked at the 50 saddest songs of all time, but as the need for new music to help you grieve—to show you that you’re not alone in your pain and to give you the space to process ...

Music is a part of every culture around the world. In fact, the ability to appreciate music is built into our brains, suggesting music has an evolutionary function. Many music studies look at the long ...

From love songs to lullabies, rock 'n' roll to heart and soul, it's almost impossible to live a life untouched by music. We've all got our go-to tunes, for good times, bad times and everything in ...

A broken heart. A sad ending to a love affair. That’s something most of us have experienced, or probably will. After all, it’s part of human life; needed, at least one time, to become more fully adult ...

In the nine years since Taylor Swift released Red, “All Too Well” has become one of her best-loved songs despite never being released as a single. So when she re-recorded the album this year, she ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Listening to sad music can make you feel connected and ...

Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my ...

Let’s begin with the obvious: the song that infiltrated every corner of TikTok for months, inspiring other songwriters on the app to duet the original chorus with musings of their own. The most ...

I’ve had an intermittent relationship with podcasts. Over the past several years I’ve tended towards listening to epic audiobook stories on Audible. Books like Game of Thrones, the Harry Hole ...

Wild Tunes connects shelters like Anti-Cruelty with volunteer musicians of all backgrounds and levels of experience.