October is when the best of the fall has to prove itself before the onslaught of holiday sets. Highlights this month: John Legend enlists Pharrell to produce an entire set; Fontaines D.C. returns ...

In the spring of 1991, Los Angeles was tried on videotape twice within two weeks. One private recording showed police officers surrounding Rodney King on the side of a Lake View Terrace road, their ...

Welcome back to another issue of Wednesday Roundups! Diving into today’s music can be overwhelming with the constant influx of albums and singles, as 100,000+ tracks are uploaded daily. That’s where ...

Two decades into his career, Juga-Naut packs his bars with food, place names, and pay figures, and the detail makes the case ...

The Atlanta rapper drags her breakup verses onto a rave dance floor, where the drops hold back the hurt, the verses start, ...

A French singer of Cameroonian descent takes freak back from the sideshow and fills the pews with every shade she can name.

A Zambian band once added its own sound to the Western songs it covered. Sampa the Great makes hip-hop the next layer on that ...

Over Real Bad Man’s unbudging loops, Boldy James raps the Detroit dope trade as a family business, with an aunt for a ...

The leader of a gospel choir generally looks in two directions: his back is to the singers, who need to see his hands, and ...

Raised in a church choir, Khal!l turns its oldest reassurances on a woman he hasn’t told everything to, then carries them ...

Originally from Naples at the bottom of Florida’s Gulf Coast, Dominic Fike didn’t live in his own house much as a child, staying with his older brother or other relatives and friends. He was given his ...