Looking back years from now, we may or may not remember how we encountered the songs that defined 2020 — on the radio, on a streaming service, on TikTok as the soundtrack of somebody’s viral dance ...

The murder rate in St. Louis, Mo. for all of 2020 was higher than it’s been in roughly five decades, falling just short of the city's all-time record, according to local reports. St. Louis' ...

A drummer on YouTube has made a video playing classic Metallica songs, but with the drum sounds of St. Anger. Indeed, they replaced all the drums on the tracks with the ringing, open-snare drum tone ...

Tracks responding to real-time events and a spectrum of moods captured the hodgepodge feelings of life in lockdown. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles No short list can sum ...

The best songs of 2020 were created in studios from Seoul to Johannesburg, Puerto Rico to Nashville. They strut, commiserate, titillate and disarm. Some of them are collaborations that showcase ...