The xx's poemlike songs are almost whispered, with ebbs of silence that creep in between the lines, creating the illusion that the audience is listening to an intimate late-night under-covers ...

Circa 1985, a pretentious young teenager in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I painstakingly typed out, on a typewriter, the lyrics to a song by an obscure English punk band—“Outdoor Miner,” from Wire’s 1978 ...

Talking about love is hard, and singing about it is even harder. That’s why we’re leaving it up to the experts to put all these messy feelings into poetic words and beautifully packaged melodies. Let ...

PARIS — Legendary singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, whose fanciful ballads and poetic love songs captured the hearts of the French for more than six decades, has died of a stroke. He was 87.

K-pop has introduced a plethora of love songs over the decades, from cute rhymes hinting subtle confessions, to deep narratives that make you feel the love as you listen to the song. While catchy ...

A new study from McGill University reports that listening to snippets of happy or peaceful music prompted study participants to recall vivid positive memories. Conversely, listening to sad or ...