In a year full of disasters, both natural and man-made, music seemed to be the one place where unpredictability was actually a good thing. From the flute rap to post-modern rock poetry, artists took ...

Listen to a playlist of the All Songs Considered host's favorite songs of the year. Despite the flood of new music in 2017, there were songs I came back to over and over again. I still star-rate my ...

The first notable pop music story of 2017 – a disastrous performance from a past-her-prime pop star – unfolded barely minutes into the new year. Six months on, Mariah Carey's NYE snafu is but a ...