Note: Some of the songs on this episode of All Songs Considered contain strong, adult language and profanity. It's that time of the year again, when co-hosts and are joined by NPR Music's and for a ...

At the 1996 Best of the Beat recognizing the best music of 1995, Gina Forsyth and Waylon Thibodeaux’s album Dans La Louisianne won as the best Cajun album. In her acceptance speech Gina Forsyth made ...

Now that Labor Day has passed, it’s time to lay to rest the “best song of the summer” debate—“Blurred Lines” won, by the way—and start looking forward to the slate of new albums coming out this fall.

From the start of July through this weekend, we’ve been ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013 from worst to best in each respective year. Last week, we looked at what ...