Music

Emerging from the Black Power era of the late Sixties and early Seventies, experimenting with street poetry and percussive sound, the music of Harlem’s Last Poets helped lay the groundwork for hip-hop. The intense Black Nationalist fare of their 1970 self-titled debut was not only politically explosive – it’s most …

In the week since Beyoncé marched into Coachella as a drum majorette with a 100-member band, transformed the traditionally rock & roll festival into a homecoming celebration at an HBCU and added another crown – Queen of ‘Chella, natch—to her collection, her show has been lauded as historic, a game-changer, …

James Bay draws on the power of inclusivity and contemplates pain in his somber new video for “Us.” The singer-songwriter plays piano in an empty room throughout the clip. The visuals cycle through intimate shots of ordinary life: one person stares into a bathroom mirror, another reclines in the grass …

Old Crow Medicine Show‘s new album, Volunteer, out April 20th, marks two decades that have taken the string-band sextet from busking on street corners to Grammy success and membership in the Grand Ole Opry. But despite their achievements, founding member Ketch Secor still feels like an outsider to country music …

Midway through Howard Stern’s uproarious speech inducting Bon Jovi into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the King of All Media took a brief break from cracking jokes about Richie Sambora’s penis and Tico Torres’ farts to make a serious point about the evening. “If I can be emotional …

On his first album, John Prine sang “I am an old woman, named after my mother/My old man is another child that’s grown old.” The song was “Angel From Montgomery,” and he wrote it when he was 22, best he can recall. But he was an old 22: An Army …

Despite all the hosannas he’s garnered up to this point – being hailed as a primary architect of a West Coast jazz revival, featured in the Whitney Museum’s prestigious Biennial and playing to thousands at Coachella – Kamasi Washington, 37, doesn’t see himself as the guy. Sure, he was an …

Carrie Underwood shared a lengthy note with members of her fan club on Tuesday, revealing the title of her upcoming single and offering a glimpse into her recovery from a nasty fall in November that required surgery to her wrist and stitches to her face. “My wrist is almost back …

Cardi B dismissed the rumors of feuding with Nicki Minaj and enthused about the wide range of collaborators – including Chance the Rapper and SZA – on her newly issued debut LP, Invasion of Privacy, in a new interview withApple Music’s Beats 1 Radio. The loquacious Bronx emcee denied Internet …

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats have been riding high the past month with the success of “You Worry Me,” their second single to reach Number One on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Songs chart. But they also achieved another milestone with their first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, where they …