More than 300 South by Southwest performers join the 2026 Music lineup today. Regional Mexican music, experimental takes on traditional genres, and up-and-coming rap are emerging as themes for the ...

In a new, marathon interview with The New York Times, the president couldn’t resist taking another swing at his favorite ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. I did not write about it when it happened, but last year there was a bit of a manufactured crisis in rap ...

From Usher and Doechii to Amerie and Rick Ross–let’s get into a handful of the most memorable and worst-sounding NPR Tiny Desks performances!

Champz fires back at Daniel Regha with a viral freestyle diss after harsh criticism of his debut EP, Champion's Arrival, ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole ...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Pran … ugh, you know the rest of it. Yes, Virginia, while there is a Santa Claus, the music of the Christmas season can make you shift from having the feels to the ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 months, and then we all argue over placements and omissions. “Where’s __?” is an ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every chart ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. It's the holiday season and you know what that means? It's time to break ...