At its core, rock & roll represents a rejection of the status quo — a rebellion against the establishment that isn’t afraid ...

We invited audiences to join Waiata 100: our search for Aotearoa’s favourite New Zealand song from a list of about 1000 New ...

There’s no law that says musicians from the United States have a monopoly on writing songs about their native country — so ...

Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy was more than an ’80s synth-pop hit. Jimmy Somerville’s anthem was inspired by his own fight for ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Song of the ...

I don’t believe it’s an accident that Noah Hawley titled Episode 6 of Alien: Earth “The Fly.” The series comes back to the present tense to further explore the nature of humanity in the experiments on ...

Because he embodied humility in his public life, the pure genius that John Prine displayed within his songs could sometimes be overlooked. Even the narrators within his songs could come off as ...

With more than 100 million equivalent album sales, 17 Latin Grammys and six Grammys under his belt -- including one for Album of the Year -- Bad Bunny has a claim for the title of "world's biggest pop ...

The past 12 months of music felt like a return to a bygone era, when things didn’t seem quite as diffuse and we had more than one monocultural event to rally around. Charli XCX’s Bratmobile and ...