Andrew Fox, the creator of “Slam Frank,” was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege ...

Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

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The moving documentary-visual album shows how a formerly incarcerated musician used rap to find healing during the darkest ...

Gary Grogan on Angela Bradley ... Marcy Zora on Al Johnston ... Finn Niesen-Davis on Cynthia Erivo ... Cindy Brya on Michael ...

Johnson is talking about his years of “dirt hustling,” when he sold stapled and Xeroxed copies of his zine Unsigned and Hella ...

Critics love to make these kinds of breathless pronouncements. But with this band, currently on tour to promote its album ...

Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.

AI-generated musician Solomon Ray has stirred a debate among listeners, drawing pushback from popular human singer Forrest Frank. According to his Spotify profile, Solomon Ray is a “Mississippi-made ...

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Funk You Up” had a playful chorus that mimicked a game of musical chairs: “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, ...

More than two decades after its release, Eminem's "Lose Yourself" finally becomes the bestselling rap song in America — as ...