I have always admired and respected Jann Wenner, and still do. Yes, I know what he said in the New York Times about Black and female musicians, and that a day later he was unceremoniously dumped from ...

Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of ...

They are coming for your high heels, and your first amendment rights. Across America, states have recently passed (or are proposing) more than 340 laws targeting LGBTQ rights, reports the Human Rights ...

A strategic but unforced shutdown of the conscious mind can put the mouth in overdrive and birth a potent rapper. (Credit: Getty Images) One day in the third-grade lunch room I somehow discovered I ...

Willow Smith is relaxed and lost in thought, sitting cross-legged on a couch in a sunlit back room of a downtown Los Angeles photography studio. Wearing a jean jacket, comfortable, loose-fitting pants ...

The Son of Man will send his angels ... with a breakbeat. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage for The Recording Academy via Getty Images If Christ then was Biggie (apologies to 2Pac), the twelve apostles — ...

B-Real drops a bombshell mere minutes into our interview. Cypress Hill’s 1993 juggernaut, “Insane in the Brain,” was initially written as a diss track aimed at “Treat ‘Em Right” rapper Chubb Rock.

Should I have brought a real pillow? A blanket? It’s too late to do anything about it. I’m already driving toward Minneapolis’ Cedar Cultural Center, an inflatable camping pillow rolled into a tote ...

bbno$ and Yung Gravy for our September 2023 cover shoot. Creative Direction byDanny Klein. Photos by Shane Smith. What a year. Amidst so much loss and heartbreak, music offers both reflection and ...

In February 2014, I tuned in to the BRIT Awards to watch my newly minted friends Rudimental’s performance. I didn’t expect to get knocked out by Ella Eyre, the featured vocalist on their chart-topping ...

If Robert Finley had been Noah – you know, the one called by God to build the Ark – he would have done things differently. “Many things don’t make sense, but it makes all the sense in the world,” he ...

When you’ve been in Radiohead together for nearly 40 years, what’s left for two childhood buddies to do but travel the world with a nasty jazz drummer, flexing chops on near half the instruments in ...