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Jailed for Love Songs? Yes, and Still Singing.
Nguyen Van Loc was persecuted for performing Hanoi’s old romantic music durin...
Lady Gaga and Doechii, the Strokes: 8 Songs We’re Ta...
Lady Gaga and Doechii strike a pose, the Strokes side-eye consumption and Kel...
Afrika Bambaataa’s Complicated Legacy
The tributes to one of hip-hop’s founders were complicated by allegations of ...
Review: A George Lewis Premiere at the New York Phil...
George Lewis’s new piece brought in the percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wir...
Hilde Limondjian, Met Museum’s Longtime Concert Impr...
She gave New York debuts to artists like Cecilia Bartoli and Peter Serkin, an...
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the...
A study found that traffic fatalities increased in the United States by nearl...
Protoje, One of Reggae’s Premier Ambassadors, Double...
The musician’s latest album, “The Art of Acceptance,” features stars of the g...
Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the ‘Godfather of Hip...
A pioneering rapper and D.J. from the Bronx, Mr. Bambaataa was accused of chi...
‘We Are Fierce Competitors’: Live Nation Case Reache...
Thirty-four states accused the concert giant of suffocating competition and d...
A Stroke and a Coma Couldn’t Stop Matt Pinfield, Roc...
Matt Pinfield, the D.J. and onetime MTV host, returned to the music world mon...
Wayne Perkins, Guitarist to the Stars, Dies at 74
Mr. Perkins worked with Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell and many others, almost joi...
Duke Ellington and John Adams: Titans of Classical A...
Recent performances by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Philadelphia Orche...
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Detroit Jazz
The city’s music is spiritual, searching and defiantly local, even when it sp...
Fanciful and Fabulous: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on ...
For their 10th life, the cats strut and duckwalk in a reappraisal of Andrew L...
9 Ethereal, Emotional, Chaotic and Goofy Cloud-Rap Gems
A quick guide to the underground genre, featuring fakemink, Bladee, Yung Lean...
Joe Conzo Sr., Guardian of Tito Puente’s Legacy, Die...
He went from being a fan of the “Mambo King” to becoming his manager and pers...
