Bollywood’s music landscape this year was shaped as much by streaming algorithms and Reels as by traditional cinema. Some ...

In 2025, melody found its way back into Bollywood’s bloodstream. After years of high-decibel beats, remix-heavy charts and algorithm-friendly hooks, Hindi film music rediscovered the quiet power of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Poptimism jumped the shark in 2025, with the charts offering up lengthy Billboard reigns for grocery store muzak and Netflix children's musicals, as the biggest stars on the planet struggled to ...

Telisha “Nikki” Jones grew up steeped in gospel, blues and R&B. She sang in a choir and wrote poetry. But becoming a full-time artist was “never a dream of mine,” she said. That all changed in ...

Happy Halloween and welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2025. It was a scary good week for new tracks, with a lot of new songs we really liked. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, ...

One of the marks of a great artist is when they create a double-sided work that serves more than one purpose. In music, artists often execute this purpose through contrasting lyrics and music. An ...

You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...