Central Cee has shared his new song “Iceman Freestyle” along with a music video. Directed by Don Prod, the clip tracks the British rapper driving an old Aston Martin, drinking whiskey, and literally ...

Charli xcx leads this week’s Friday Music Guide with her lush Wuthering Heights companion album, which features spunky ...

August Ponthier. Brent Faiyaz. Jill Scott's first album in more than a decade. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by Nastia Voynovskaya from KQED in San Francisco to chat about their favorite ...

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On January 28th, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a protest song he’d written “in response to the ...

Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ within days of Alex Pretti’s killing, continuing a long ...

As Freestyle prepares for a packed 2026, starting with a Valentine concert “Stages of Love” at the Mall of Asia Arena on Feb. 13, vocalist Top Suzara reflects on why the band is still “in tune” with ...

Off, J. Cole delivers his seventh studio album and what has long been billed as his swan song before officially hanging up ...

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Al links up ...

Off’ with four new freestyles over bedrock rap beats. GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe gives them the scrutiny Cole is asking for.

Hit-Boy has famously had his ups and downs with the labe l. But even through the frustrations, he remained a steady force in modern-day rap and R&B, crafting classics for artists ranging from Drake to ...