<!-- missing image http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-spacer.jpg -->This week we enjoy a half-dozen summer songs. We mix them up of ...

Move over King Kenny Chesney, there's a new queen of summer songs in country music. This list of the 10 best country songs for summer 2025 includes one or two summer love songs, an accidental ...

It looks like Lana Del Rey wasn’t kidding when she said that she had an album full of standards ready to go. As for this one, Del Rey shared a video that begins with a jaunt through Beverly Hills in a ...

This is the time of year when online chatter begins to percolate about what the song of the summer will be. Last year, Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" and Chappell Roan's "Good Luck, Babe!" were ...

When rocker Eddie Cochran released “Summertime Blues” in August 1958, the concept of “the song of summer” was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that anyone whose summer wasn ...

The official start of the summer season is just around the corner, and nothing goes together quite as well as country music and summer songs. Country has plenty of fun, upbeat summer songs that ...

When Fantasia Barrino-Taylor won America’s vote on American Idol in 2004, she was “just a little girl from High Point, North Carolina, who liked to sing.” Now, 20 years later, not only has she ...

"Summertime," composed by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess, has become one of the most recorded songs in history, with over 25,000 versions. This video explores its origins, from African-American ...

The Fourth of July is here. Meaning everyone and their momma will be hosting a cookout to entertain friends and family. While food may be the most important part of the cookout, another key ingredient ...

It's hard to think of a more quintessentially summertime subgenre than '80s hard rock. Colloquially known as glam metal (or, more derisively, the dreaded "hair metal"), these songs celebrate life's ...