Ramsey Lewis, the pop chart’s favorite jazz pianist, dies at 87 : NPR

Ramsey Lewis, the pop chart's favorite jazz pianist, dies at 87 : NPR

Ramsey Lewis, seen here performing at the Ontario Jazz Festival in 1981, died Monday at his home in Chicago. Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images […]

APOCALYPTICA Releases New EP ‘Metal Classic, Classic Metal’

APOCALYPTICA Releases New EP 'Metal Classic, Classic Metal'

Finnish cello rockers APOCALYPTICA have dropped their very own cello-metal reinterpretations of classical bangers with the new EP “Metal Classic, Classic Metal”. Release day also sees the band unleash the focus track “Flight Of The […]

Mabe Fratti: Se Ve Desde Aquí review – cathartic and powerful experimentation | Experimental music

Mabe Fratti: Se Ve Desde Aquí album cover

Life after lockdown has been a time of creative change for Mabe Fratti. The Guatemalan cellist and composer wrote her second album, 2021’s Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos?, while isolating in an artist’s compound outside […]

Lil Nas X Vogued To Beyonce’s ‘Pure/Honey’ At His Tour Opener And Fans Couldn’t Get Enough Of It

Lil Nas X VMAs 2022

Getty Image When Beyonce released Renaissance at the end of July, a major talking point was how heavy it leaned into dance music. Many listeners stated that she would be instrumental in bringing back voguing, […]

Courtney Marie Andrews Shares “These Are the Good Old Days”

Courtney Marie Andrews Shares "These Are the Good Old Days"

Courtney Marie Andrews returns today with the new single “These Are the Good Old Days,” the latest single off her upcoming album Loose Future. It arrives with an accompanying music video, as well as newly-added tour […]

The Top 10 Most Popular & Admired Indian Musical Instruments In 2022

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Music is by far the most important kind of art and culture in India, where it plays a significant role in people’s daily life. India is a country of music, as evidenced by the audience […]

Premiere: NATIVE Sound System Call On WANI, BOJ, Odunsi The Engine & Odeal

Premiere: NATIVE Sound System Call On WANI, BOJ, Odunsi The Engine & Odeal

Just last month, NATIVE Sound System—the music project from Nigeria’s NATIVE Magazine—dropped their debut album, NATIVEWORLD, an ambitious, globe-trotting project that united artists and creatives from across the diaspora. Nestled between contributions from the likes of Knucks, Arya Starr and Teezee […]

6 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Bitchin Bajas, Pi’erre Bourne, and More

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With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. […]

Why Dwayne Johnson Routinely Brings His Own Food To Restaurants

Why Dwayne Johnson Routinely Brings His Own Food To Restaurants

Getty Image In the 1980s, Robin Leach rose to fame as the host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, a television program that was essentially devoted to making viewers realize just how little they have […]

Rings of Power brings Galadriel’s lost Lord of the Rings story to life

Galadriel sits in contemplation in the woods with her heartthrob companion

“All shall love me and despair.” The line from Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring is the apex of Cate Blanchett’s striking turn as the elven sorceress Galadriel. In an instant, all hell seems […]

NITA STRAUSS Releases New Instrumental Solo Single, ‘Summer Storm’

NITA STRAUSS Releases New Instrumental Solo Single, 'Summer Storm'

Former Alice Cooper and current Demi Lovato guitarist Nita Strauss has unleashed her brand new instrumental single, “Summer Storm”, with an accompanying live music video shot on her recent U.S. headline tour. The new track […]

Good mourning Britain: how chillout music soundtracked the death of Diana | Music

Elton John singing Candle in the Wind at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997.

What was the soundtrack to Diana, Princess of Wales’s death? Surely Elton John’s Candle in the Wind 1997? After all, it’s the biggest-selling UK single of all time. But no: if you were listening to […]

The Al Yankovic Story’ With Daniel Radcliffe

The Trailer For 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' With Daniel Radcliffe Is Impossible To Watch With A Straight Face

Via ONE Media / YouTube / Weird Al Weird Al Yankovic has been a fixture in the entertainment business since the 1970s. He has sold well over 12 million albums, performed over 1,000 concerts, and […]

Jazz impresario Creed Taylor was one of the last of a dying breed of ‘record men’ | Music

Creed Taylor pictured in 2005.

The “record men” were a fabled breed of almost entirely American males who, across the 20th century, became famous in their own rights due to their discovering, recording, promoting and sometimes fleecing of future legends. […]