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 ...

A woman whose newborn daughter died has written a song on what would have been her first birthday, to help other parents in a similar position to feel less alone. Olivia Dewar's daughter Soulie was ...

Emmylou Harris and Joan Baez are similar in the sense that most of their musical reputation lies in their ability to interpret other people’s songs, not necessarily write their own—but in each woman’s ...