Music is a common mnemonic device, which may explain why you remember 1980s song lyrics but not a lick of what you’ve studied ...

From Bill Haley to Nirvana, 15 songs that blasted into the rock pantheon like so many objects from outer space ...

E very generation gets a song that feels like a battle cry, even when it was never meant to be one. In the mid‑1980s, three ...

Slang doesn’t form in a vacuum—music drives it. Many rap slang terms come from African American Vernacular English (AAVE), while others stem from pop or older eras. Prosecutors placed on leave hours ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...

Luke Bryan lost his train of thought, forgetting the lyrics of his own song, during a recent performance. The country music star was performing “Strip It Down” when he couldn’t come up with the lyrics ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last year, a lot of indie-music fans—including myself—got someone else’s packing list stuck in their head. I’d walk around muttering “Milk thistle, calcium, high ...

Kim Gordon has re-recorded her single, “Bye Bye” — off her 2024 solo album, The Collective — especially for Donald Trump. On “Bye Bye 25!” she replaces her original lyrics with a list of all of the ...

The first adjective on singer-songwriter Vitalia Khmil’s biography is “Ukrainian-Canadian.” But the Montreal-based pop singer, who performs as simply “Vitalia,” is truly hard to define with a single ...

Award-winning Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier wrote “Drag Queens and Limousines” 25 years ago. It tells the story of her rebellious youth, not fitting into high school culture, and ...

The Philadelphia Eagles’ fans will sing the team’s fight song, “Fly, Eagles, Fly” after every touchdown against the Washington Commanders in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday at Lincoln Financial ...