Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

"Choose a song you like then rewrite it. Write new chords to it and different lyrics but keep the trajectory of the song." ...

As people remember famed singer Roberta Flack, we meet the songwriter who wrote the lyrics to "Killing Me Softly": Lori ...

Lady Gaga rediscovered her passion for music through self-discovery, channeling her personal transformation into her new ...

Following his viral single Big Dawgs in 2024, rapper Hanumankind is back with his first solo song of the year.

A just-released instrumental George Harrison tribute album by gypsy jazz guitarist Robin Nolan features a new song created with unused chords penned by Harrison.

The music is by Calixa Lavallée and the lyrics are by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The song gained popularity in English-speaking Canada when the then-Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, who would ...

Argument rages over whether the Pet Sounds' masterpiece is in the key of A or the key of E, as the song tugs away from a singular center. Though its intro’s confluence of instruments point towards an ...

According to Mark Lewisohn, a Beatles biographer, Paul, then around 19 or 20, worked on the chords ... The song was initially going to be called 'Seventeen' and its lyrics were finished with ...