Music
During the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in 2011, jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding was awarded Best New Artist, a trophy assumed earmarked for Justin Bieber (who else?), and the scandal that ensued changed the recording industry forever.
Music
What did Prince mean?
Music
The big question in hip-hop this season: which megaartiste made the superior album, Kanye West or Kendrick Lamar?
Art
Violinist Camilla Urso "stood on the stage like a statue on fire," in the words of writer Theodore Tilton.
Music
My roommate once noted how I only sing in the apartment when we play Brazilian music.
Music
First things first: Kanye West’s release strategy for his new album was a catastrophe.
Performance
"Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we're in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor," sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.
Music
El Guincho's "Hiperasia," DJ Slugo's "Cocaine Music," "Star Wars Headspace," and Moodymann's "DJ Kicks."
Music
There’s never been an album quite like David Bowie’s "Blackstar" in rock & roll history.
In Brief
When French colonial forces pulled out of Guinea following its declaration of independence in 1958, they notoriously even took the lightbulbs.
Music
The consensus was that this former child star’s career was over; no longer in his target demographic’s age range, he found himself unable to push the same buttons as before, and was prepared to fade, slowly but honorably, from the public spotlight.
Music
Plenty of rappers are prolific in the mixtape world; in terms of sheer output, this Atlanta trap king puts even the absurdly productive Young Thug to shame.