When Taylor Swift unveiled the names of the vault songs on her just-released re-recorded album 1989 (Taylor's Version) in the most unhinged way yet — those 33 million Google puzzles?! — one track in ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...