“Everything is under control,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings, again and again, throughout “Call the Tune,” a haunted hymn amidst the collection of mystical prayers, jazz vamps, and folk musings that ...

2023 had it all when it came to music: record-breaking tours, unique songwriting and new artists on the rise. The Root’s senior writer Candace McDuffie and freelance music writer and critic Maura ...

Nostalgia will always be the original it girl. For decades, artists across many genres have reached back to previous time periods for creative inspiration. That stretch has only elongated in recent ...

“I don’t know how to feel, but I wanna try,” sang Billie Eilish, as Barbie, and in 2023, some of us knew exactly how she felt. (Or couldn’t.) Fortunately, there are about 35 million songs a year being ...

Houston musicians have made things very difficult. That's because there was a wealth of great albums released throughout 2023. Rap and hip-hop, as always, came to the party. There were standouts in ...

Canton Repository entertainment writer Ed Balint ranks the best music of 2023. Making the cut were Olivia Rodrigo, The Beatles, Extreme, Macy Gray and Inhaler. Local music standouts included Anya Van ...

welcome to the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, celebrating innovation, creativity, and freedom. (lively drumbeat continues) (moves to upbeat jazz music) (audience applauding) Please welcome three-time ...

In the final segment of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast's look back at last year's best music, we take on under-appreciated Spanish-language albums in many genres, across multiple nations ...

Taylor Swift made up 1.7% of the entire U.S. recorded-music market in 2023, according to the year-end report from Luminate, the industry data partner formerly known as SoundScan. The news does not ...

It's that time of year again to simultaneously reflect and anticipate. As we move ahead into 2024's calendar year of new local shows and album releases, we are first taking a moment to review a year ...