Jamaica and Japan marked 60 years of diplomatic relations this year, a milestone marked by several cultural events, including ...

Music writer Grant McPhee offers his best albums, singles and books of the year. ALBUMS Snowgoose  Artist: Snowgoose Album: ...

Electric Castle, a popular music festival in Romania, recently announced the first wave of artists in its lineup: Justin ...

I have two wolves inside me: the one yearning for the ambitious, prickly kaleidoscope of several Bob Dylan depictions in Todd Haynes’s 2007 film I’m Not There, and now another that enjoys the ...

Love is a beautiful thing, but dancehall songs about love are relatively rare notions in today's music marketplace. That's ...

psychedelia and Motown music with lush orchestral arrangements, with acts like the Supremes, Stevie Wonder and the O’Jays creating hybrid disco in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Disco began ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

Snoop himself has made an R&B album, he's made a gospel album, he's made a reggae album, children's music. There are people veering into education or showrunning ... I know what a Bruce Springsteen ...

At the tail end of an interview with Time magazine for his Icon of the Year story, Elton John dropped a bomb: "Legalizing ...

I live in Brixton, south London. To get to the tube, I have to cross Windrush Square. Since 2021, I go past the Cherry Groce ...

What we now know as easy listening evolved from the rhythmic syncopation of jazz, combined with the helpful invention of the electric microphone and demographic changes in the United States which led ...