I’m not sure if the Gen X stare is a thing, but it certainly was last week when someone asked my thoughts on the song of the summer. I had nothing. Every summer, you see, has at least one song of the ...

In summer, the song sings itself,” wrote the American poet William Carlos Williams. It’s true – except, of course, when Sabrina Carpenter sings it. Just last year, Carpenter’s sugary disco track ...

Labor Day weekend has come and gone, which must mean that the final word is in on the Songs of the Summer. What does Billboard‘s chart-determined Song of the Summer tell us about the state of Songs of ...

Whenever I hear "Float On" by Modest Mouse, "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers or MGMT's "Kids" I'm immediately transported back to my summer days in the early 2000s. And rightly so — summer is usually ...

Every year, there’s one track that somehow makes its way from a teenager’s headphones to my mom’s Pilates playlist. You know, the song that plays at rooftop bars and seeps into your subconscious ...

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. An announcement on Aug. 27 from Spotify named five songs of the summer, hand-selected by the ...

The Song of the Summer—that annual title typically given to the track universally blared out of car windows, in the background of commercials, at backyard barbecues, in clubs and bars, from personal ...

I’m not sure if the Gen X stare is a thing, but it certainly was last week when someone asked my thoughts on the song of the summer. I had nothing. Every summer, you see, has at least one song of the ...