DMC’s Darryl McDaniels Brings Music and Meaning to Paper Plane Coffee The rhythmic scratching of a turntable might have been ...

So he sat on his rhymes, and didn’t try again until he was released in early October, after serving his time for a gun charge ...

With the Christmas break now well and truly over and forgotten, here are five key developments in the music business since ...

You can probably guess the top one: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” the same song that took the top spot in ...

Friday — the first of his three-night takeover at Alpharetta’s Helium Comedy Club — T.I. had a commanding stage presence while tackling topics like aging, his distance from rap music and hypocrisy in ...

From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a genre, Christmas music is more than just the classics. As a true connoisseur of the season and a fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, ...

I think the song is a perfectly sentimental jamboree—repetition as a remedy for the innocuous—and I don’t take its opposition too seriously. Like the Beatle naysayers that still dare walk among us, I ...

“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...

Even during the holidays, I simply cannot get enough. It’s hard to find really good, high quality sad country Christmas songs, and as I’ve mentioned several times already this holiday season, I’m not ...

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the ...

NEW ORLEANS — When you think about music in New Orleans — you probably think of jazz or blues, or maybe funk and bounce. Christmas carols? Not so much. But many musicians in New Orleans have deep ...