Your heart is hurting. So the last thing you need is to listen to sad songs of love lost, played on a plaintive little ukulele by none other than Eddie Vedder. Has he no mercy? Still, you take in ...

Those who bore witness to the ukulele’s prevalence in pop culture in the early aughts through 2015 or so — let’s call it “the great millennial ukulele craze” — understand what four strings and a twee ...