On "Salad Days", Mac DeMarco borrows from Shakespeare and embraces optimism on his 2014 indie rock title track.

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In “Where The Goth Girls At?”, Josh Homme revisits both the excitement and life-threatening danger of his youth.

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The Who planned on following 'Tommy' with another rock opera. But the ambitious new project proved to be too much.

On her latest single, "New Trick", Blackpink's Rosé transforms heartbreak into a high-energy empowerment anthem.

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Carly Rae Jepsen knows exactly what she wants on "On Wires", her dreamy new pop song about the risk of romantic urgency.

Lizzy McAlpine plans her own funeral in "Doomsday", a darkly clever take on the final moments of a disintegrating ...

Beabadoobee explores the raw emotions of a breakup on the alt-rocking single "Sun Has Set" from her latest album, 'Pylon'.