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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Millions of people sing it each year at the stroke of midnight, some beaming with joy and others overcome with emotion as they bid goodbye to the year that has passed. But what does the New Year’s ...

Paul McCartney is setting the record straight on the rumors surrounding his hit Christmas song. The former Beatle addressed theories that his 1979 holiday tune “Wonderful Christmastime” encourages ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. You can hear these songs in our ongoing Best ...

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...

Emma Witmer hasn’t released any new music as gobbinjr in six years but that has finally changed, having announced new album crystal rabbit moon which will be out in the spring. Details are still to ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Here's what Guns N' Roses fans are saying about the band's two new songs "Nothin'" and "Atlas." The songs are the first new material from GN'R since 2023, when they released "Perhaps" and "The General ...

The Los Angeles Clippers sent shockwaves to the NBA by suddenly cutting ties with Chris Paul in the early hours of Wednesday morning. More than the decision itself, the way it was handled caught many ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...