The newly Grammy-nominated rap star Rod Wave is no stranger to Chicago’s character-building cold weather. The Floridian has been bringing Chicago fans along on his journey to superstardom since he was ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...

The staff of the Book Review recommends unforgettable books that made our personal best-of-the-year lists. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff ...

Some pop songs hit differently, and most listeners can’t explain why. The secret is jazz-level chord writing hiding inside simple melodies. These songs use unexpected voicings, extensions, and ...

Ocean waves could be an enormous source of power for the grid: In the U.S., the motion of waves along coastlines could generate as much as 1.4 trillion kilowatt-hours a year, or around a third of the ...

Last month Silversun Pickups released "The Wreckage" and announced their forthcoming seventh studio album Tenterhooks, out next February. Today the LA four-piece has returned with another preview of ...

Avenged Sevenfold have released new music as part of a video game tie-in that allows players to hear it before anyone else. "Magic" is the first new music from the band since their 2023 album, Life Is ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Sarah Roth, Kasper Roth and Bill Horstmeyer had a history in the service industry, but when they decided to open a bar together, they wanted it to be more than a bar. In 2022, the trio introduced ...

The song “Walk My Walk” by country group Breaking Rust recently reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. However, the raspy cowboy singing the song is nothing but a series of ...

MUNICH — "It was gnarly. Dangerous. Only the most experienced could surf it," says Jakob Netzer of what local surfers have come to call the "E1," an ever-churning wave along a mountain stream that ...