In a year when Taylor Swift took up an atmosphere’s worth of media oxygen (sorry), artists large and small continued the long trudge uphill, attempting to stand out in an increasingly crowded field.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand took the pop culture world by storm with their 1976 remake of A Star is Born, and not just because of their extra-steamy album covers. The film’s soundtrack ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Music, commands, and chaos unite in a performance that reshapes reality. Police in Finland arrest 2 members of cargo ship's crew in connection with damage to undersea cable Donald Trump changes his ...

Welcome to one of the worst years in Hot 100 history. Sure, most #1 hits these days are especially crummy, but there’s something impossible about 2005’s lukewarm output. Considering how rich 2004 was, ...

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 event. It helps that I lived through all of these songs dominating radio ...

Actor Rasha Thadani, who made her Bollywood debut with Azaad, marked one year of her viral dance number Uyi Amma by thanking audiences for the immense love the song continues to receive. While the ...

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents ...

The NBA’s preeminent shot-blocking guard outdid himself Tuesday night in Utah. Derrick White, who leads both the Celtics and all NBA players at his position in blocked shots this season, swatted away ...

TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper is a notes-first device. The split view for recording, transcription, and note-taking is super handy. The matte display looks great, but the tablet skips Nxtpaper's signature mode ...