In 2014, the Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda was at the forefront of the reëmergence of N.Y.C. street rap when he and fellow-members of the GS9 collective were charged...

Danny Tenaglia is a d.j.’s d.j. For decades, his marathon events at Winter Music Conference, a club-business...

The years leading up to the recording of Jana Horn’s new album, “The Window Is the Dream,” found the singer with a broken turntable, a wonky laptop speaker, and...

The guitar’s possibilities seem boundless in the hands of Yasmin Williams, a young finger-style player from northern Virginia. Angling her instrument so that it sits horizontally, Williams has employed...

Last month, the complete discography of Moving Shadow, one of drum ’n’ bass’s foundational labels, went live on Spotify. It’s an immense catalogue, studded with many of the...

Stacey Kent has a small voice—but, then, so did Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. The art, as all three prove, lies in making the most of what you’...

When tickets for the Cure’s North American tour went on sale in March, the front man Robert Smith expressed...

Few bands have metamorphosed with the drama and the panache that the Flaming Lips exhibited in the near-decade between the group’s twin totems, “Transmissions from the Satellite Heart” (1993)...

The Vision Festival is heartily committed to free jazz—whether it’s defined as jazz unfettered by formal restrictions or jazz that’s free to call on all that...

Simple arrangements go an engagingly long way on “How to Love,” the new album by Dan Willson, an Edinburgh-based troubadour who performs as Withered Hand. Recently resurfaced after a nearly...

Among the most fitting festivities of Pride Month is a celebration of the disco queen Sylvester, whose gender-and-genre-bending career ascended with hits such as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)...