Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was.

My favorite part of the holidays is giving someone a book. I’m that person who gives everyone on my list a wrapped book then ...

Many golf terms stretch back centuries, and contested origins are common. Here is a history of some of golf’s most fundamental words.

The best songs of 2025, as picked by the editors and contributors of The FADER. Featuring "WHIM WHAMIEE," Dijon's "Baby," ...

Explore why birds sing in the morning. Discover the biological factors behind their vibrant morning chorus and joyful songs.

Roughly 225 years after Novalis’s unspoken question, an unlikely source has (presumably unintentionally) posited a new answer: “Now is the fake,” croons 22-year-old Irish singer-songwriter Dove Ellis ...

In the final scene of Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” an aged Sammie Moore (Buddy Guy) sits at a blues venue bar when Elias “Stack” Moore (Michael B. Jordan) and Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) stroll in, frozen in ...

The nightjar has one of the strangest voices in British wildlife, and people have been trying to explain it for […] ...

KC and the Sunshine Band, racism, instrumental songs, forgettable melodrama, good to great FM radio fodder, and a Bowie ...

The Twelve Days of Christmas is a well known Christmas tune but one of the most popular lines in the carol has a surprising ...

A UC Berkeley study shows that when zebra finches hear the call of another zebra finch, they have a mental representation of ...

As it passes a sun (By a wind off the sea) Who can say if I've been changed for the better?