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Another year, another glitter-filled spectacle known as the Eurovision Song Contest. The Grand Final airs Saturday at 3:00 p.m. ET on Peacock in the United States.

This Valentine's Day, NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Jessica Roy, an audience engagement editor for the Los Angeles Times, about her piece on songs that were ruined by exes and past relationships.

Paul Spring's first album of family music draws from his own childhood, as well as Mark Twain's.

The Song of the Day is paying tribute to the musicians, singers and songwriters who died in 2023.Burt Bacharach was more than prolific he was damn good. More than 1,000 artists sang his songs. Seventy of his songs became Billboard Top 40 hits. Bacharach died February 8 in Los Angeles. He was 94.

Toby Lineaweaver of Woods Hole, Mass., talks about his "signature song," "Speak to Me/Breathe," by Pink Floyd.

Musician Kristina Olsen says Tibetan prayer flags flying over porches near her home in Venice, Calif., made her wonder how divine forces decide whom to help and when.

Scheinman says that since writing and performing The Littlest Prisoner's "Just a Child," the song has "really transformed" her relationship with her father.

More than a wedding march, the Song of the Day, Canon in D, has been foundational for songs in every modern genre. Johann Pachelbel was baptized on this day in 1653.

Songs feels like the work of an artist who's still figuring out who he is, where he wants to go, and what he wants to elaborate upon — or invent anew.

Every year we commemorate the graduation season with folk singer Tom Rush's performance of Murray McLauchlan's "Child's Song."