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Ariana Grande released her seventh studio album, "Eternal Sunshine," on Friday. It doesn't meet the emotional bar set by her previous work, but the songs are fun and expertly made. The best tracks ...

“Eternal Sunshine” is strongest when it leans hardest into R&B, a genre Grande impressively embraced on her gorgeously sung if somewhat traditionally arranged 2013 debut, “Yours Truly.” ...

For the third straight year, Kali Uchis is releasing a new album. Her latest, Sincerely, (the comma is part of the title), is out on May 9, and its lead single, “Sunshine & Rain…,” is out ...

Roy Ayers dies at 84—here are five essential songs from the ‘Everybody Loves the Sunshine’ music legend. OPINION: The jazz-funk pioneer passed away in New York City on March 4th; his catalog ...

Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song,” wraps musicology and social and political history into 161 concise pages.

What makes a great song of the summer? Is it an up-tempo pop banger? Something with an earworm chorus? Does it need to ...