Marcus Samuelsson knows the New York food scene like the back of his hand, which is why this legendary soul food restaurant ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

Judging by mainstream music in 2025, humankind is not in a particularly creative place. The year’s main storylines included ...

From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and ...

Rosalía's LUX is NPR Music's No. 1 album of 2025. At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks ...

The NPR Music critic and All Songs Considered contributor's favorite records of the year include the best of British rap, ...

Three rock songs that have made it to the upper level of the Hot 100 since the end of the garage and alt-rock movement.

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

Solomon Ray’s first album, Faithful Soul, launched him overnight into the bestselling and most-played charts. Within days, ...

Brevity is the soul of wit in Mack’s new publication Short Form: 40 Years of Music Videos, Ads, and the Art of Moving Images, ...

In a year when hip-hop was frequently absent from the pop charts, NPR's music critic found that looking in darker corners ...

For previous Beat Authority top ten lists, here's 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019. For older ones, try here .] The ...