Pioneering Jamaican drummer and producer Sly Dunbar, one of the sonic architects of modern reggae, died suddenly at 73, with Keith Richards leading an outpouring of tributes to the influential ...
The biggest night of the year is almost here. On Saturday, the greatest musical stars of the year will gather for the Annual Grammy Awards.
Award shows are bound to get stuff wrong, but a shocking number of masterpieces were ignored by the Grammys in the album of the year category.
This week, I’ve got another four albums for your listening ears. There will be three new albums from the past week (on a ...
When most people think of samples in Hip-hop, they think of classic soul and funk records. A beautifully haunting vocal sample from a singer lost in the ...
THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY MAINSTREAM R&B/HIP-HOP RADIO AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY MONITORED 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS ...
Good guitar playing doesn’t always mean virtuostic technique or culturally relevant riffs. It’s about telling a story with ...
It's an eclectic list, to say the least, encompassing pop, traditional pop, rock, hard rock, R&B, rap, country and reggae.
Wander around all the stuff, bang it, shout, play it, it doesn’t need to make any sense,'” McCartney instructed the Beatles ...