This list of NPR Music's best songs of 2023 looks unlike any we've ever made before. It's not just the number of songs that has changed. There are no rankings here — in fact, the 123 songs below ...

Seventy-one tracks that asked big questions, found new kinship between genres and helped us see the good in Ken. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles The album may be imperiled ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

In the wake of a heartbreak, many of us turn to music. Songwriters have been writing about breakups — more specifically the romantic kind — for decades. There is, after all, a lot of varying emotions ...

Since the pandemic began, I've not been going to concerts — as in none since March 2020 — until this year. So far, I've dodged the COVID bullet (yes, an outlier), though I'm still squeamish about ...

We’re a few months from Valentine’s Day, but who says it has to be a holiday to plan a romantic night? Romance is timeless—one minute you’re doing the dishes and the next, your significant other is ...