Rapping is built on a set of skills that closely resemble those required in politics: timing, improvisation, argumentation and rhetoric, audience awareness, and sarcasm. A rapper must know when to ...

The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country. By Tyler Pager Eric Schmitt ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

Paul Leon Schmolke, known to many as Smokey, a resident of Santa Fe, N.M., passed peacefully on December 9, 2025, in Albuquerque, N.M. He was surrounded by loved ones and had just celebrated his 80th ...

Fifty years after he first started performing in Milwaukee, local music hero Paul Cebar performed at Vivarium Jan. 9. Cebar performed several songs from his first album since 2014, "Paul Cebar," that ...

ABBA's “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” debuts on a Billboard chart more than 40 years after its release. Picture taken in 1974 in Stockholm shows the Swedish pop group Abba with its ...

Just in time for the weekend, Aldean released not one but three new songs from his Songs About Us album. They included “Her Favorite Color” and “What’s A Little Heartache.” And for the last song, ...

New video shared by Minnesota-based outlet AlphaNews appears to show the moments before Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent. The video appears to be shot from the agent’s perspective ...

If you’ve already played out all the best albums of 2025 and you’re ready to put your music listening habits in 2026 mode, you’re in luck because this year is already musically off to a good start. We ...

Zach Bryan introduces With Heaven on Top, his first album since mid-2024, with a spoken-word story of a Manhattan apartment in the winter, a fire, and the New York Fire Department dousing him with ...