The seven acts for Yle’s 2026 Contest for New Music UMK were announced today in a live broadcast. The UMK show on 28 February ...

Forté was a key member of the Refugee Camp All-Stars collective and contributor to classic Fugees album The Score ...

Four of the biggest songs on YouTube among American viewers in 2025 come from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, while Lady ...

Lil Uzi Vert captures the crown on Billboard 's Hot Rap Songs chart for the first time in three years as "What You Saying" ...

The Australian soundtrack traded guitars for synths in the first quarter of the millennium, as pop eclipsed rock to become ...

Independent hip-hop heavyweight Larry June has shared a new single called "Who Coppin'". The release continues his run of ...

Back in Action Album rollouts may seem outdated, but rappers are still embracing the concept, just in different ways. Change ...

More than a third of popular U.S. hip hop and rap music videos referenced marijuana in 2024, according to a new ...

Bruno Mars, Jill Scott and Mandy, Indiana have new albums on the way, and a frantic tune from an anime film is No. 1 in Japan ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. I did not write about it when it happened, but last year there was a bit of a manufactured crisis in rap ...

There’s a star pianist in Walnut Creek, new shows at Santa Clara’s Triton Museum and a two-day tribute to David Bowie.

San Bernardino band Fuerza Regida has broken records on the Billboard charts and is up for its first Grammy in 2026 — but ...