Our staff's favorite songs from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. On the charts, 2025 was a year that often felt like flipping TV channels to find a new episode to watch and coming across nothing ...

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The World Bank's Papua New Guinea (PNG) Economic Update offers a comprehensive evaluation of the country's economy, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth, macro-fiscal ...

There are plenty of songs about sports out there. Many are worth celebrating, and we're not talking about songs that have become associated with teams or sports-venue regulars, such as "We Will Rock ...

Kendrick Lamar has released a surprise song on his Instagram page, supposedly titled “Watch the Party Die.” On the five-minute song, he references Christian rapper Lecrae, Terrace Martin and what ...

Miranda Forsyth receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sinclair Dinnen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Papua New Guinea has had a difficult year, beginning with ...

There is no platonic definition of a good cover version of a well-loved song. A good cover can be an enthusiastic celebration of the original, a rendition that highlights the very things that stir ...

It’s been a big year for moody guitar bangers, boundary-pushing Latin pop, dazzling pop spectacle, and uplifting Afropop. The song of the summer sweepstakes are off and running. Superstars like Usher, ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

Spotify has been keeping streaming stats since 2008, and in that time, a select few songs have racked up billions of plays. Here's a rundown of the platform's biggest hits. My title is Senior Features ...

The universal language of music has united generations of lovers since the beginning of time. Falling in and out of love, grasping at unrequited love, mourning love lost and succumbing to deep love ...

Pearl Jam isn’t quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an ...