When Phil Cook found himself living alone in the North Carolina woods, he returned to the piano — his first instrument — working through loss, grief and the promise of new possibilities.

When I think about timeless voices in R&B—those smooth, soul-stirring vocals that never age—Peabo Bryson is always at the top ...

When song lyrics are done properly, they can be like beautiful poetry. Here are some of our favourite examples. "I'll be the corpse in your bathtub / Useless / I'll be as deaf as a post / If you ...

Brenda Song revealed her fiancé, 44, still doesn’t know how to drive a car and didn’t know how to do laundry when they first met. “I always say Mac is a very unique human being the most ...

Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here ... with cushy piano chords and a firm backbeat; the lyrics pile on the ambivalence.

If one were only to look at the chord charts for Tom Petty’s vast repertoire, they might assume the Florida native’s music was simple and, dare we say it, even boring. But therein lies the ...