Valentine ’s Day is a time for love song rankings, and one ballad has stood the test of time.

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I like to say every song has a story,” says Jim Vallance. “This one went from somewhere on a shelf in Toronto to the top of ...

The year 1983 brought Michael Jackson’s Thriller dominance, synth-pop’s mainstream breakthrough, and new wave’s golden moment that defined early MTV culture. Test your knowledge of that remarkable ...

Emily Bader as Poppy in People We Meet on Vacation. (Credit Michele K. Short/Netflix) It may be the dead of winter, but the Netflix film adaptation of Emily Henry’s “People We Meet on Vacation” is ...

As genre names go, “post-punk” is particularly hard to pin down, but it’s generally used to describe an array of underground rock forms that emerged in the late ’70s, mostly in the U.K. The definitive ...

CBS Evening News relaunches Monday with a set of “five simple values” promoted across social media ahead of the debut. One has drawn outsized attention: “We love America. And we make no apologies for ...

Timothy Byron does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Love is in the air, and in the pages! NPR's Books We Love suggests "Heartbreak Hotel," "First Time Caller," "Time Loops and Meet Cutes," "Heart The Lover," "Can't Get Enough," and "Courtroom Drama." ...

Formed in London in 1977, The Police were together for less than a decade, though their legacy lives on nearly 40 years later. Originally consisting of Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland, the ...

The holiday season is here! Radio stations are playing the classic songs, thousands turned out for the Electric Night Parade, stores are bustling with customers, and kids are creating their wish list ...

Hear the Replacements (on Big Star), Sonic Youth (on Karen Carpenter), Stevie Wonder (on Duke Ellington) and more. By Lindsay Zoladz The first time the Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg met one of ...