If you've been gripping the great armchair of life, this week's All Songs Considered is here to help, with songs to lower the shoulders and slow the blood. NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Stephen Thompson ...

Sad songs can actually cause the release of a hormone in the body called prolactin. It's released when we feel true grief or ...

Around this time last year, we did a show called "Songs to calm the nerves," followed by "More songs to calm the nerves" last fall. This week we make it a trilogy with our latest installment, "Even ...

Based on these comparisons, they found that certain specific qualities can cause a piece of music to give you goosebumps–or piloerections, to use the scientific term. Music like this has the best ...

The song is the seventh track on Buckley's only studio album, Grace, released by Columbia Records on August 23, 1994. Grace ...

I woke up this morning with a curiously powerful craving for the Shins’ “Caring Is Creepy.” It’s hard to ever really know what any Shins song is about, but this one seems to me to be about the ...

Pumpkin lattes, knitted sweaters and sobbing while listening to Phoebe Bridgers? Hot Girl Summer’s gloomy older sister, Sad Girl Autumn, is upon us.   Coined in 2019 as an antithesis to “Hot Girl ...

Taylor Swift has released her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, on October 3, making fans go gaga over her new ...

Why Many Nigerian Books Are Sad…and Why That’s Okay Nigerian literature isn’t just sad; it’s honest. This essay explores why our stories lean toward struggle, and what that says about us. Celebrities ...