I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson, wrapped in a fur coat against the April chill, stepped to the microphone atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and launched into “America (My Country ...

Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music ... melody. He’s a patient teacher but a hard man to impress. On the jam that turns into “Cypress Grove,” Holmes stops me and repositions my ...

On Send a Prayer My Way, Julien Baker and Mackenzie Scott, who performs as Torres, are falling off the wagon and staring at its wheels; they’re reckoning with regret; they’re wrestling hateful mothers ...

We know — the economic times are hard. We believe that our work in upholding the First Amendment and reporting on these changing, challenging times is more important than ever. We need to raise ...

Julie Taymor’s 2007 jukebox musical isn’t just a love story set during the Vietnam War; it’s a full-on Beatles-fueled fever ...

Yet Send A Prayer My Way is that album, and it is an undeniably country music record at its core. This is no nod to a genre that seems to have exploded in popularity in recent years, but rather a ...

Country music’s seemingly immovable framework provides ... Hooks are tossed out as smoothly as well-thumbed playing cards; Send a Prayer My Way follows the rules of old, familiar games, but ...

Rapper BigXthaPlug’s team-up with featured artist Bailey Zimmerman, the genre-bending “All the Way,” debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (dated April 19). Released April ...

Browns free agent running back ... Instagram this week that it’s way too soon to write him off even though he remains unsigned. “They’ve already wrote my ending when I’m just getting ...