This Song Changed My Life

After a surprise breakup, Sadie Menicanin was properly introduced to Dylan

Wes Fox goes down an early internet rabbit hole, and ends up on the beach

Artist Melissa Joseph is spellbound by South African jazz

The legendary Pakistani song that felt like home to Osman Khan

In 1980s suburban London, the radio led Lee Walker from funk to Afrobeat and beyond

The 1977 Taiwanese hit that soundtracked Kathleen Barnes’s childhood

’70s Mexico City, a first kiss, and José Luis Ruiz’s childhood crush

How Juliane Pautrot learned to listen to herself

Connor Zaft missed the point, at first

Constance Brichford was the new kid in school, but the least annoying kid at camp

The Pandora Radio song Dan Neilan felt in his chest and guts

An early-90s alternative radio find emboldened Sarah Brown to become weird, insufferable, then totally herself

Nick Rubin on the transformative, infectious joy of a 1992 music festival

In revisiting a middle school playlist, Daysi Sanchez found self-compassion

Sean McNally was a three-year-old metalhead

The song that saved Aaron Stewart

Actively discouraged by adults in her life, Angela Simione grew wings anyway