This is the first episode of a new series on All Songs Considered, hosted by NPR Music critic Ann Powers and editor. Most of ...

The song is simple and to the point. Its straightforward verses and bare-bones arrangement leave little but the truth in a trail of twanging strings, a swaying bass line, and a steadily trotting drum ...

Gospel music has always played a big role in American culture. Now the music's wide-ranging history is being celebrated at Nashville's new Museum of Christian and Gospel Music.

Bob Dylan's relationship to religion is a complex one, but he could always find proof of God's existence in a beautiful song ...

“I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in 2022, when asked about the experience of covering his father’s 1971 modern ...

How music convinced a religious skeptic to rethink faith. By Santi Elijah Holley Before I began listening to gospel music about 12 years ago, I was not the most obvious candidate to become a fan of ...

The band CAIN, a Christian music family trio, knows what it’s like to rely on God in the midst of chaos. In an interview on ...

The 1970s was a tumultuous time, full of upheaval on many fronts, from the end of the Vietnam War to the dawn of personal computers. It makes sense that its music had a similar helter-skelter feel.

As 2025 rolls in, it's time to look back and celebrate some of the nostalgic pop songs you may have forgotten about that turn 25 this year. (Yes, we feel old.) These tracks defined the sound of 2000 — ...

Universal Music Group, the largest major-label conglomerate in existence, has joined forces with ABKCO Music & Records and Concord Music Group to file a huge copyright-infringement lawsuit against ...