In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why. Credit... Supported by By Jon Pareles Forty years ago, the ...

Sometimes you just need something to cut the noise. These are three pop songs form 1984 that will melt the world away.

For the rest of the year, I’m ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can read the final ...

1984 was a strong year for music in general, but rock, in particular, had a stellar run. In this era of the genre, hair bands ran rampant, experimentation was commonplace, and anthems were all the ...

Summertime, and the listening is easy, songs are rockin’ and the volume is high. Which is to say, it’s time to talk about songs of summers past. Songs of the summer anchor us in a time and place. You ...