This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re ...

The song, which the 70-year-old punk and rock legend co-wrote with J. Ralph, could bring him the first Oscar nomination of ...

If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to ...

Manitowoc's The Happy Schnapps Combo released "The Bears Still Suck Polka" in 1991, and 35 years later, it wouldn't be ...

A song written by a legendary Syracuse University alumnus is seeing a huge jump in popularity thanks to “Stranger Things.” Cowboy Junkies’ “Sweet Jane,” written by Lou Reed, was played briefly in the ...

Tearjerking movie Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and a Golden Globe-nominated Kate Hudson, tells the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina who met, fell in love, and made a living singing Neil ...

With all due respect to Mr. Diamond, who I think has some great songs in his repertoire, “Sweet Caroline” sucks. I hate it with the power of 1000 burning suns. Whatever gene that people have that ...

Strange folk, lost pop, disco oddities and, um, Dido – here are the forgotten tracks that became this year’s most replayed revelations ...

The idea began in California’s Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems, sometimes with catastrophic ...

I’m a creature of habit. I’ve listened to the same music for most of my life. I’m not proud of that, but it’s the truth: I’ve clung to my favorites for decades, dragging them from format to format ...

Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...

Toni Lyn Morelli receives funding from U.S. Geological Survey. Diana Stralberg receives funding from Natural Resources Canada, the Governments of the Northwest Territories and British Columbia, Canada ...