From tongue-in-cheek antics poking fun at the music industry to heartfelt odes to salsa, here's what we loved this year.

My co-editor Andy Cumming and I have given ourselves (under separate cover) the difficult task of coming up with 10 of the ...

Ludmila Oliveira da Silva, professionally known as Ludmilla, is a trailblazing Brazilian singer-songwriter, actress, and ...

Larissa de Macedo Machado, better known by her stage name Anitta, was born on March 30, 1993, in the Honório Gurgel ...

There’s A Rhythm is one of the tracks of the year, and the best example of the band’s new direction with its R&B beat. The darling of American indie folk is documenting the infatuation of new love and ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

When Brazilians have confidence that an endeavour is going to be successful, they say ‘Vai dar praia’ — literally, ‘It’s going to give beach’. Few countries’ cultures are so closely entwined with sun, ...

While hearing Portuguese among Haile Plantation’s streets may not be common, one restaurant corner in the Haile Village Center plays Brazilian classics lightly over its speakers. Samba Brazilian ...

Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when ...

Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Carnival in Brazil—a dazzling, five-day extravaganza of parades, music, and street parties. Photographer Marta Tucci documented the spectacle for T+L. “The parades at ...