My 2025 10-best list is heavy on storytelling songwriters of all stripes, from country to rock to hip-hop to dance-pop. The Brooklyn band that is hyped as the future of rock is on it, as is the ...

With this in mind, here are KTLA’s 50 best songs of 2025, an unranked list for which I began working on in October and have ...

Memories of Crop Over, folk songs of yesteryear along with contemporary and classic tunes soothed music lovers who got a little bit of everything during Friday night’s National Independence Festivals ...

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The first time I traveled to Red Hook, it was for a Jay Electronica show, in the summer of 2010. He was performing in Red Hook Park, a free concert hosted by SummerStage, the first one of the season.

Jay Electronica floods fans with new music by dropping four new projects over the weekend. It's been five years since the New Orleans rapper put out his most recent offerings, A Written Testimony and ...

Hug your loved ones. Clear that bucket list. Shoot that shot. As if we needed any more signs that imminent doom is on the horizon, Jay Electronica, music’s foremost harbinger of societal collapse, has ...

Jay Electronica’s long-lost album Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) finally surfaced on major streaming platforms, reigniting hopes for new music. For those who’ve followed his winding career ...

BBC drama Mix Tape, a tale of star-crossed lovers who bond over music, is coming to RTÉ soon but can it reinvigorate the lost art of the mix tape as musical love letter? It was a teenage rite of ...

From Taylor Swift to Beyoncé, pop star reinventions are a dime a dozen nowadays. But that was not the case in February 1998, when Madonna ended a four-year recording silence with her career and ...

To quote Louis Armstrong, “All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” No horses at the Lowell Folk Festival, but lots of songs and lots of folks. Taking Armstrong’s definition ...

It is a very specific kind of flex to have to shelve an album because of the success of its prior partner record. This could happen only to very few artists, of which it did to Madonna. The undisputed ...