A new collection of music from the remote African islands of Sao Tome and Principe is a revelation. This nation in the Atlantic Ocean doesn’t get a lot of attention, but as we hear in songs by bands ...

This week in Philly music features an old school hip-hop extravaganza in Atlantic City, an intriguing Bob Dylan tribute, and ...

Bob Weir, guitarist, singer and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78. Weir’s death was announced Saturday in ...

There are few musicians today quite like Janis Joplin. While modern artists such as Taylor Swift attract mass audiences, the ...

Robert Fuller hasn't let nine decades keep him from his love of the pedal steel guitar and playing for the Blue Rhythm Boys ...

A couple of months ago, on assignment, I found myself in a tiny new museum on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco – ground zero of the “Summer of Love”. Fittingly, the museum was ...

Five years ago, an Apple Music Radio show tailored to my taste amplified music discovery for me. Discovering new episodes of that show, however, proved difficult. That changed three years later when ...

Raul Malo died Dec. 8; two of his holiday albums anchor this year's list. Reviewer mixes reissues and new releases, favoring roots, Cuban and vintage styles. Favorites include Mavericks' "Hey! Merry ...

Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: A song she’d recorded in 1962 — the year of the Cuban missile crisis — was ...

With Mariah Carey and Wham! saturating airwaves with their holiday tunes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. But if all you want for Christmas is a reprieve from stereotypical Christmas ...

A t his regular spot — the stool with “BG” on the back, way at one end of the bar — the owner of Buddy Guy’s Legends scans the hundreds of people packing his club. Tugging off the pandemic-era mask he ...