The heart of country music is love songs and honoring where you come from. However, country music also has its share of songs about mourning, grief, and death. Let’s look at a few famous examples of ...

Rock music has always been a great genre for narratives about love, loss, fame, and power. However, there are quite a few particularly beautiful rock songs out there about death, each written with a ...

The Cure’s frontman Robert Smith recently said he struggles to write songs about death at his age. Smith, 65, said the idea of mortality has become more real as he’s gotten older, in an interview with ...

"I can write words but I don't really feel like singing them." Robert Smith's macabre sensibilities helped launch the Cure to massive success — but nowadays the musician is finding it harder to write ...

Now, I know what you’re probably thinking: Death Grips? How could you possibly sleep to a high energy, experimental rap group like them? What is this list? Well, let me explain. About three years ago, ...

At the start of 2020, the comedian, actress, and writer Rachel Bloom was riding high. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the musical TV show that she had co-created and starred in, had wrapped up its four-season ...

When the nominations for the 2025 CMA Awards came out, it was many mainstream country fans’ first introduction to Stephen Wilson Jr., who scored a New Artist of the Year nod. But there’s more to ...

Death to All celebrates the music of pioneering death metal act Death and includes members that actually played in the band. Credit: Alex Solca When Chuck Schuldiner, frontman for the pioneering death ...

C arol Bell wasn’t going to miss watching her son Luke open for Dwight Yoakam, even if it meant leaving her sick husband at home and flying across the country from Wyoming to Charlottesville, Virginia ...