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NPR Music celebrates the alt-rock heroes, Hollywood idols, Pulitzer-winning composers, jazz luminaries, cult legends, bold activists, old masters and rising stars the world lost this year.

When former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died Monday, the hashtag #nowthatcherisdead popped up on Twitter. For some, it was the pop star's name that stood out to them, not Thatcher's.

An American Idol runner-up and its first openly gay contender, Lambert has transitioned neatly into the role of a pop star.

The Irish pop group's music gave a gay teenager the courage to come out to his religious family.

In June, the mega-popular K-pop group had already announced a hiatus. On Monday, the band's label and management company announced that all seven BTS members will be enlisting in the military.

Five popular toys have never made it into the Toy Hall of Fame but at least one of those wrongs will be righted this year in a special contest open to the public.

Here's hoping that the holiday provides the rare oasis from a year full of rancor and racial strife in our politics.

Twitter is going through a lot of changes, including switching CEOs. But, analysts say, stalled user growth and discouraging financial results call for more change than just new leadership.

Soon after it was announced that Noah will host The Daily Show, it emerged that some of his tweets mocked women and Jews — tweets that critics have called sexist and anti-Semitic.

If it looks like rice and cooks like rice, but is made from cauliflower, what is it? A growing number of states are taking up legislation to address the labeling of foods like cauliflower "rice."