Welcome to our weekly music post, where we spotlight our favorite new songs and albums. Hop in the comments and tell us: What ...

Ringo Starr maintains his perpetual optimism in “Look Up,” the title track of his new, Nashville-centered album. Written by T Bone Burnett and Daniel Tashian, the song posits, “There’s a light that ...

Franz Ferdinand are back with The Human Fear, perhaps their best album yet. The band’s frontman talks about two decades in the music business ...

Why does English sound the way it does? What is Christian nationalism and how did it begin? Cal Lutheran University’s Fifty and Better winter lecture series will provide answers to these questions and ...

Music is a lot of things. It's rhythm, it's melody and it's lyrics. It's about delivery and meaning but sometimes those latter two things can coalesce. While so many of us listen to songs for the ...

A new English course at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts takes a look at Taylor Swift's lyrics and compares ...

A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...

Elton John is enjoying a return to the top of the UK album chart, with a record first released in 2017. The BBC reports that ...

Former hotshot firefighter Miro Serrell Freed tells CNN’s Weir about the hardships of fighting the wildfires in California ...

Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the ISIS group to set off a bomb at a Shiite ...

You know the holiday season is winding down when local book launches and events start picking up again — and McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location has three launches coming up over the ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...