He used to take part in peaceful demonstrations on behalf of free speech. Now, poet Maung Saungkha leads his own rebel group on the battle against Myanmar's military junta.

(Anti-Junta Alliance Yangon via AP ... a traditional Burmese art form in which the participants present satirical poetry and songs. He was arrested in 2019 along with three others after taking part in ...

As we enter the final few months of the year, Noah Kahan’s Stick Season holds on to its title as the biggest song of 2024 so far, Official Charts can reveal. However, with several new entries ...

YouTuber KSI's new song "Thick Of It" is making most of the internet (over the age of 14) cringe, hard. Its lyrics, "From the screen, to the ring, to the pen, to the king! Where's my crown? That's my ...

A recent report by the U.S. Institute of Peace highlights the resurgence of scam hubs, particularly in Myanmar's Karen State, due to China's softened stance toward the country's military regime ...

Putting words to music can lead to immortality. Unfortunately, not all sentiments expressed in songs deserve to live forever. Systemic racism has been known to work itself into music, via lyrics ...

The analysis’s authors used Lyrics Translate, an online library of song translations, as their starting point, and looked at 627,000 individual translations of over a quarter of a million ...

When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface ...

The hit boasts twice as many weeks at No. 1 than any other leader this year. By Gary Trust Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tallies a 12th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, extending ...

Maung Maung Ohn, the junta’s information minister, articulated Myanmar’s desire to join Brics as an observer during a recent visit to Moscow, according to Russian state news agency Tass.

currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers.” It’s smaller than similar ...