When hip-hop music was first created in the parks of New York City in the late 1970s, the sounds were born from records and turntables. Using groundbreaking but also rudimentary equipment, DJs played ...

Fifteen things worth noting about the nods for the 2025 awards, including snubs, surprises and André 3000 scoring big with his flute album.

Boyd argues that music has long been fundamental to political liberation. Referring to the South African townships during the ...

As Aerosmith call timeon their stellar 50-year touring career, Perry joins us to reflect onwhathe’slearned about guitar along ...

A tender yearning permeates the traveling career survey of Bronx-born Whitfield Lovell, who forges Black histories from aged photographs. The exhibition begins with Lovell’s works about family and ...

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Beyoncé received 11 Grammy nominations Friday, breaking a tie to become the most nominated artist in Grammys history as the ...

Indeed, the 2025 Grammy nominations have officially been released Nov. 8, and while the 67th annual ceremony won’t occur ...

The Black Angels’ first album, 2006’s Passover, has a fascinating title. The record explicitly connects the then-ongoing war in Iraq to the American war in Vietnam—especially in a hidden bonus cut, ...

Vision has been released showing military dogs wearing a variety of new equipment after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) awarded ...

an oddball experiment in American roots music that sold 9 million copies ... We bought all of this Class A equipment, the ...