As the world marks Fela Kuti's 87th posthumous birthday this week, Okayplayer and OkayAfrica celebrate the legendary musician's life and legacy with stories that explore his lasting impact on music, ...

An $8 billion artificial intelligence data center project in Port Washington, Wisconsin, is facing strong public opposition. Critics are concerned about the project's massive energy consumption, ...

A haunting exhibit in South Boston honors the lives of hundreds of people who were killed two years ago during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel at the Nova Music Festival. Walking into the ...

Iconic 70s rock stars Queen have been well-known for their incredible style and visuals — so much so that their music video for arguably their most famous song ended up receiving major accolades a ...

Today, Apple Music, the NFL and Roc Nation announced that 3x GRAMMY Award-winning global recording artist Bad Bunny will perform at the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium in ...

Experiencing goosebumps while listening to music — otherwise known as "frisson" — results from a connection between auditory input and our brain's emotional processing center. It’s a reaction to the ...

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has announced he’s launching a new label specifically for blues and blues-influenced artists. Red Zero is named after two of the earliest places Ingram played in Clarksdale ...

Gustavo Dudamel has had a lot of chances to make a first impression on the podium of the New York Philharmonic — as rookie phenom, visiting superstar, anointed future music director, and now the ...

Researchers in the Netherlands turned a major music festival into an unexpected laboratory to investigate a question that has long puzzled scientists and bug-bitten individuals alike: What makes some ...

In Dead Weight, Swell Foop’s sophomore EP, the Berkeley-based band dissects the corpse of a dead relationship, successfully moving on from an ex-partner and into new musical and lyrical territory. One ...

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus serves as the worst high school talent show MC in the hilarious new video for People R Ugly’s “Wake Up.” The track is set to appear on the up-and-coming indie-pop outfit’s ...

When Mark Ronson began writing his debut memoir a few years back, he grossly underestimated the commitment. “It ate my life,” he tells Variety of “Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City,” ...