It can be easy to feel like you need to get parenting right all of the time. But “there really is no perfect parent," says ...

A curated guide to the spring and summer concerts worth your time in the Hudson Valley, featuring legacy acts, cult favorites ...

Listening to music at work can you stay focused, build creativity and block out distractions, scientists say, although for some tasks silence may be best.

The world from which the West benefited most over recent decades was structurally distorted. Globalization did not merely bring integration and growth; it also deepened inequalities, including within ...

Bad Bunny's halftime performance at Super Bowl LX highlighted energy injustice in Puerto Rico and the need for energy policy reform to address an unreliable power grid.

The Union home ministry has mandated that a six-stanza-long, 3 minutes and 10 seconds version of Vande Mataram be played or sung at a raft of official occasions, including during the unfurling of the ...

As much as songwriting is a creative force, it also has rules. There are parameters for songwriters to follow—the basis for a hit. But, if you aren’t too hung up on the idea of getting a hit, the ...

Here's a look at the trends in the Hot 100's top 10 for all of 2025, as analyzed by Hit Songs Deconstructed. By Gary Trust What were some of the most notable trends on the Billboard Hot 100 songs ...

The Punjab government has banned 132 Punjabi songs from being played during Basant celebrations, aiming to stop the spread of lyrics it calls suggestive, vulgar, or socially inappropriate. The ...

Genres typically have agreed-upon conventions among members. Success usually breeds followers, and at times, a genre can sound like an endless echo of artists all doing the same thing. But there is ...

Harvey Mason Jr. says the "toughest part" of his job as president/CEO of the Recording Academy and MusiCares is figuring out what to do about AI. "I represent 40,000 members of the academy, and we’re ...