Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

We've polled our music writers for their albums of the year – records with identity, message and vision, and a landslide ...

Where earlier heavy metal could be gloomy and occult, Sodom raised the temperature even more with gory, blasphemous lyrics, ...

From Bad Bunny’s celebration of Puerto Rican roots to Silvana Estrada’s lovely reminder to embrace the present, here's what ...

B.H. The famous intro to Pickett’s signature song came from Cropper noodling around on his guitar before a session in Memphis ...

The 80s were a great decade in country music. So many great country songs were released in that time period, especially in ...

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...

The highs matched the lows for Karen and Carlos who, despite their Couple's Choice dance earning them a perfect score, scored ...

His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.

In the late 1950s and through the mid-1960s there was a flurry of corny songs, many with nonsense word refrains.

One of southern California’s oldest giant sequoias holds more leaves than there are people in China. It has stood since there were fewer people on Earth than live in modern Japan—more than 3,000 years ...

The rock world lost a great with the passing of John Lodge on October 10, 2025. Here are four tracks he spearheaded with The ...