From Charli XCX’s neon-splattered club remix with Lorde to The Cure’s moment of bleary-eyed brilliance 16 years in the making ...

We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed a lot. So, too, has the music that helps give it color. With the speed of the ...

Shawn Mendes is on a mission to find himself on "Shawn," his fifth album. We tell you about the rootsy and revelatory songs ...

From "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" to "Time after Time" and "True Colors," these are the 15 best Cyndi Lauper songs as her farewell tour continues.

"Days of Gold" is sure to put you in a sunshine-y mood, with its talk of " good times for miles " and a simple, rockin' chorus. We're partial to Owen's rendition, but a little more funky flavor is ...

Young musicians looking for longevity would be wise to follow the sensible words of Willie Nelson: do what feels right, and if you are lucky enough to have a statue built in your honour in your ...

Happiness. Joy. Love. We call these “feel-good movies.” Everybody has their go-to stable of films they return to over and over again when they need a boost — or maybe just an escape.

Santa Cruz punk/melodic hardcore vets Good Riddance are back with a new protest ... and a more equitable distribution of life’s blessings. The song comes with a lyric video (by J Sek of ...

What a difference a change of pace can make … Quincy Jones – “Soul Bossa Nova” (1962) 1962’s cold Christmas got steamier when Jones composed and produced this sexy song for his “Big ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Swift featured the rappers’ new song ‘WHATCHU KNO ABOUT ME’ in an ... All the big stars love me.’ I felt good,” the musician says of waking up on Oct. 18 and finding out about the ...

But nobody made the song jump like Jones did — one reason Ol’ Blue Eyes kept working with him for the next two decades (including on Sinatra’s final solo studio album, 1984’s wonderfully ...