Songs have long been used to recount historical events, natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, and wildfires included.

Best Coast announced an indefinite hiatus a couple of months ago, and now bandleader Bethany Cosentino is getting ready to release Natural Disaster, her first-ever solo album. The LP comes out later ...

For generations, song-makers have borrowed from life to craft tunes, taking even the most difficult of disasters and setting them to song. Maybe as a way of coping, maybe as a form of chronicling, ...