In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over the summer of 1962, songwriters Don Smith and Cyril Vetter wrote a catchy garage-rock song ...

Laced with hip-hop and soulful beats, Cure for Paranoia weaves themes of mental health and politics throughout their music. The collective from Dallas, TX, steers with purpose behind their art.

By Isabel Alarcón Willan Gualinga first stepped onto a stage in his home community of Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in the province of Pastaza. He recalls his hands sweating, his body trembling, ...

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld Billy Barrino’s life sentence, rejecting challenges to the admission of rap ...

Cardi B has still been dropping material since her last album AM I THE DRAMA?, and she has a new album on the way. She's ...

Get a roundup of Columbia’s music scene with reviews of recent releases like Admiral Radio’s rootsy LP “Heirloom,” MIDS’ live ...

THERE is a moment just as the chorus arrives that the latest single by Scottish rapper Bemz becomes what critics have ...

Unless inclement weather pulls the plug on some shows, it will be another busy October week of music in New Orleans thanks to ...

THERE is a moment just as the chorus arrives that the latest single by Scottish rapper Bemz becomes what critics have described as a late-summer anthem ...

At 22, emerging New Orleans rap star La Reezy has the gig of a lifetime as the opening act for Chance the Rapper’s 10th ...

Steve Martin and Alison Brown on reinventing Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' as traditional bluegrass, with new lyrics and Del McCoury and Dan Tyminski.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld a life prison sentence for a Union County man convicted of murder in 2024. Billy Barrino, 28, argued that the court should not have omitted ...