These love songs — Neko Case's "Oh, Neglect...," Valerie June's "Runnin' and Searchin'" and Olivia Dean's "Man I Need" — each express a refreshingly realistic ambivalence toward romance. This is FRESH ...

Love songs can be sappy and sentimental, poignant or powerful. But some of the best have a slightly different twinkle that bypasses all the standard cliches.

Once an artist releases a song into the world, they lose control of its public interpretation, which has led to a lot of downright creepy, weird, or even hateful songs being mistaken as love songs.

Is the love song dying? NPR's Juana Summers speaks David Mora and Michelle Jia about their recent essay in The Pudding, which set out to answer that question. JAMES: (Singing) ...My love has come ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

This is FRESH AIR. Rock critic Ken Tucker has chosen three new songs that sound nothing like the pop music currently dominating the charts. The first belongs to Neko Case, who has released her first ...