From watching his father perform with jazz luminaries as a child to producing for hip-hop royalty, Karriem Riggins has spent his life at the intersection of musical worlds. The Detroit native, who ...

New Orleans-based band the Soul Rebels is making waves in the hip-hop scene by collaborating with some of the industry’s most iconic and progressive artists. The band’s presence in hip-hop culture has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. D’Angelo on stage at the Brixton Academy in London in 2000 - Independent/Alamy D’Angelo, the American musician who has died of ...

The producer, who helped create and expand the sound of countless pioneering hip-hop albums, discusses his technique and place in history in a lost interview ...

When SETI X—the San Francisco-based emcee and recipient of the Pharrell Williams-backed J Dilla Music Tech Grant—told me about a small brick-and-mortar he co-owned with Delrokz, a turntablist and ...

In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...

Last year, the festival earned New Times ’ Best Music Festival award for 2025, a title that naturally raises expectations.

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

From Clipse to Little Simz, the Chicago festival’s latest lineup highlights hip-hop, R&B, pop, electronica and more. 9 hours ago “I didn’t try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer – no ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The landscape of hip-hop was rapidly changing by 1993, as its commercial ...

Despite turning a half century old this year, Hip Hop music is showing no signs of slowing down. If anything, it’s expanding faster than DJ Kool Herc was spinning records in the Bronx on August 11, ...