This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

The result is On the Moon, Men Without Hats’ latest album, whose sound is built on the band’s catchy electronic pop and ...

Opera has no shortage of drama or tension. But pyrotechnics, explosions, intense fights and aerobatics are chiefly the domain ...

Two men are parlaying a "Stay With Me" TikTok trend into a brand of "love and light," catching the attention of Grammy Award ...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson dust off their microphones and get back to their singing roots in Song Sung Blue, a true love ...

There are still folks to whom my yearly holiday greeting is “Merry Krimble,” a classic onomatopoeiacal Beatle-ism uttered on ...

Song Sung Blue” works because it understands intimacy, between partners, between performers, and between music and memory.

Valley Dance Theater: The company’s full-length “Nutcracker,” a decades-long tradition in Livermore, is back at the Bankhead ...

Six Grammy nominees — producers, songwriters and best new artist contenders — gathered to discuss impostor syndrome, creative process and navigating stardom in 2025.

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Christmastime Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi Trio are among the best ...

The members of SZN4 include Cameron Goode, Donzell, Katie and Aaliyah Rose.

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