“The punk scene, the hardcore scene, was smoking,” Umberto Crenca proclaimed, referencing Providence in the 1980s. Crenca is...

Will Sheff is a musician who is best known as the frontman of the critically-acclaimed indie rock band Okkervil River. The group’s 2005...

Sport Ivory is a Nashville-based band consisting of lead vocalist Jeffrey James, guitarist Justin Halpin, and sound designer Jordan...

From the taxi cabs, tuk-tuks (miniature three-wheeled vehicles), and vendor stands crowding the busy streets of Cairo blares a genre of...

The rapper Trevor Lee rose to fame as an early American adopter of TikTok with viral hit “Barbershop Freestyle” in 2018. He got his...

Pauline Jean is an internationally acclaimed Haitian American singer, songwriter, and composer who has performed everywhere from Moscow’s...

Brett Cameron is an independent singer and songwriter who has shared the stage with Jon Bellion, Hall & Oates, Kodaline, and Drake Bell...

Copyslut is a band and artists’ collective who have been creating sex-magic, catharsis, and healing vibes since 2017. Also sex-positive...

Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, best known by his mononym Seal, is a singer and songwriter. Born in the United Kingdom and of...

Polo and Pan, a French electronic duo, are great artists—until the lyrics start. Dreamy rhythms become corroded by blatantly racist...

Quavo, a rapper from the Atlanta hip-hop trio Migos, wants a featured verse on the United States’ national anthem. A Migos fan started a...

The Internet is, among many things, the new cultural frontier. Its egalitarian nature–letting anyone with access create, promote, and...

Almost every year since its inception in 1901, the Nobel Committee has handpicked the figures that their voters believe represent the...

In a notable scene from Straight Outta Compton, members of the hip-hop group N.W.A. sat at a press conference, answering questions from a...

If the Nobel Prize in Literature was established to celebrate words that empower, then the Swedish Academy’s selection of Bob Dylan is...

Eight Days a Week a recently released documentary, directed by Ron Howard, sheds light on the early touring years of The Beatles as they...

“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the...

During the 1960s, artists like Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and Creedence Clearwater Revival used their music to speak out...

In Cuba, the journey to implement public music education has paralleled the country’s battle for compulsory education, and nationhood...

In releasing his new album “To Pimp a Butterfly,” Kendrick Lamar topped off a year of political and racial turmoil with an appropriately...