Music & Culture

The singer offers a candid breakdown of her latest album track by track, with stories about serial killers, suicide and how she emerged from the darkest period of her life.

The Brooklyn-based band crafts infectious pop music that builds dramatically before giving way to a quiet calm.

The songwriter has gone from playing dive bars to performing at the Grand Ole Opry. Hear Ashley McBryde's studio performance, recorded live at Nashville's Sound Stage Studios.

"Influenced by many, but I'm a whole new star." Rapsody ascends on the shapeshifting first single from Laila's Wisdom.

Watch the rising singer perform a highlight from her excellent debut EP, 3:33am, live in the studio for KCRW.

After learning that billionaire and Warner Music Group owner Len Blavatnik donated to President Trump's inauguration, a professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government has resigned.

A Michigan multi-hyphenate whose artistic ambition suggests a drive for immortality, Olaniran stuffs his songs with ideas. "Symbol" is no different.

Clarkson makes a bold-but-restrained return with the first single off her new album, Meaning of Life, which drops October 27.

An explosion of music festivals catering to niche interests includes any genre you can think of, gourmet food, craft beer, environmental sustainability, extreme luxury and grueling physical exertion.