As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John Donne” and goes on to refer to Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman and ...

This Billboard Japan interview explores how getting closer to fans overseas shifted their mindset in some ways and left other ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 ...

Many alternative rock artists in the 1990s only needed one word for song titles. These days, you need BRAT-style sentence case (“I might say something stupid”) or Coldplay emojis—for which I’ll spare ...

There are a lot of songs that Sheryl Crow is happy to explain. She can tell you all about the upheaval in her life when she penned “Leaving Las Vegas,” and about the election night that sparked “Run ...

We might be a little biased, but Billboard firmly believes music is the best part of the holiday season every year. That includes songs from all time periods, and certainly some of the Christmas canon ...

Alanis Morissette has been performing “You Oughta Know” for 30 years, and yet the record remains a striking encapsulation of her artistry. The singer-songwriter appears on the MGM+ documentary series ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

Another Christmas season is upon us. For most, it’s a joyous time of year. But for some, it can bring feelings of loneliness, or it may awaken tender memories of loved ones who have departed. When I ...

Singer-songwriters tend to be great storytellers, so it’s no surprise when they turn out to be awfully good at narrating their life stories through music. That’s the case in Words + Music, a ...

Nothing reminds me of the late 1990s quite like Blink-182’s hit pop-punk album, Enema Of The State. That was such a wild time for music, both in pop and rock. Genres and subgenres were changing ...