In the autumn of 2024, Alabama Shakes appeared content to let their indefinite hiatus continue – and few expected otherwise. Seven years had passed since the blues-soul-rock group from Athens, Alabama, had last taken the stage together. Their 2012 debut Boys & Girls had broken them internationally; 2015’s Sound & Color topped the US charts, sold more than a million copies and earned four Grammy awards. Admirers ranged from Bruce Springsteen and Robert Plant to Barack Obama. Yet by 2017

NEW YORK (AP) — No matter which nation you’re backing in the World Cup final, one universal truth remains: nothing sets the mood quite like a perfectly curated playlist. To help fuel the excitement ahead of Sunday’s showdown, the Associated Press has assembled a soundtrack worthy of the occasion. Whether you’re rooting for Argentina to secure back-to-back titles for the first time since Brazil’s golden run in 1958 and 1962, or hoping Spain’s young sensation Lamine Yamal finds the net, these 10