Experience a calming journey through books and writing with ambient music designed for relaxation, focus, or meditation. Soft lighting and warm visuals, accompanied by gentle chimes, create the ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

Singer-songwriter Sombr is up for Best New Artist of the Year at the Grammy Awards. He was the only writer on his debut album, "I Barely Know Her." He spoke to Anthony Mason about where his journey ...

LOS ANGELES − From the viral "Espresso" to "Please Please Please," 26-year-old singer Sabrina Carpenter has mastered the art of writing a hit song after nearly a decade of feeling "the literal ...

Even in wartime, Christmas music brings people together. On Christmas Eve 1914, before the most brutal fighting of World War I, British and German soldiers sang Christmas carols in the trenches and ...

The Oscar-contending hitmakers, also including Hayley Williams, Raphael Saadiq and Michelle Zauner, trade notes and gossip and sound off on the secrets behind this year’s most memorable movie melodies ...

As DEI battles and funding shifts roil campuses, music programs from UCLA to Juilliard continue to grow. THR ranks the 20 schools shaping the next generation of composers. By Jeff Bond Conservatories ...

Kids raised in cities often have memories that make suburbanites blush. When Chris “Time” Steele was growing up on the Northside, he and some friends found an abandoned gun. “We had found it in this ...

Nilufer Arsala of The Current’s Morning Show talked with singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson about writing the music for the Grammy-nominated stage adaptation of The Notebook. Use the audio player ...

Songwriting might be the community-building project your church needs right now. I am the oldest of 12 grandchildren on my mother’s side of the family. Naturally, I was the director. My grandparents’ ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — When Holly Gleason's father looked down from heaven and saw his daughter hit No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, she imagines he shared the moment with John Prine, both ...