Our staff's favorite songs from a year of booming rap singles, delicate piano-rock ballads and irresistible pop singles that brought you-know-what back to the front of top 40. In the wake of the ...

Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...

The year before punk broke, rock's old guard made a strong, pressing stand. But as the UCR staff-selected list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1976 shows, the music that dominated headlines at the end of ...

“Wildflower” beat tracks by Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and Doechii. By Hank Shteamer Billie Eilish resumed her lengthy streak of Grammy wins on Sunday when “Wildflower,” a melancholy acoustic ballad written ...

One of the bonuses of making "Song Sung Blue" filled with Neil Diamond songs is how astonishingly prolific the globally beloved singer-songwriter was during his five decades of recording and ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe. Ask ChatGPT how to ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal songs of 2025! We know you all have a long, long list of your favorites from this year, whether it's in a playlist curated by our streaming overlords and ones ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are back as Elphaba and Glinda for “Wicked: For Good,” Jon M. Chu’s latest film which adapts the second act of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s hit musical. Though ...

Tucker Wetmore's best songs make a strong case that this country newcomer is here to stay. In a lot of ways, Wetmore is following in the footsteps of stars like Morgan Wallen, as well as his tour ...

The new KATSEYE song “Gnarly” is a frontrunner for most polarizing pop song of 2025 — and its existence is proof we're so back. There are so many ways to make an impactful pop hit: you could go for ...