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With the World Darts Championship under way, we rank the walk-on songs picked by Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael van ...

There are no better actors for making beautiful music together than Kate Hudson and Jeremy Allen White. Hudson stormed Hollywood at 20 as the hippie muse of Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous." And this ...

Lyrics of successful songs in the United States have become simpler and more negative over recent decades, according to a ...

Whether or not you consider Wham!'s "Last Christmas" a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator.

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...

Taylor Swift surprised fans with revised lyrics to two songs on her 2017 album, Reputation, via Apple Music. Eagle-eyed fans ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

Lü Xiaomin never received formal music training. But her worship songs have made her a household name in China’s churches.

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a ...

As our latest “Music History” guest, Isbell swept us up in his fascinating career journey, which began with his brain ...

Taylor Swift didn’t make an announcement — she didn’t even post — but a quiet update to Reputation landed at a very specific moment. On Dec. 12, just one day before her 36th birthday, fans noticed ...