Beyoncé’s much-anticipated eighth album, Cowboy Carter, arrived in 2024, and as many fans suspected, it’s in part a tribute ...

In the book “Eight Journals" Yaacov David Shulman has succeeded in remaining faithful to the Hebrew text while capturing the ...

The singer, rapper and provocateur pushes herself to the max. On her new LP, “Vie,” that means leaning into her pop roots and ...

The Criterion Collection’s series of restored international films returns with a set featuring movies from Algeria, Burkina ...

Mavis Staples and the folk supergroup I’m With Her were validated as the class of the Americana field at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, while the prime time broadcast sidelined roots music just when ...

THERE’S too much fun to be had with Lord Offord, Reform’s Caledonian potentate. His general schtick and blurred consonants remind me of Big Jock, Ford Kiernan ’s beer-garden balloon from Chewin’ The ...

CBS can’t air six hours’ worth of awards, and the Grammys need to make cuts somewhere. But there were so many moments in the ...

The 2026 Frequency Festival draws a line through one-bit electronics, Scottish balladry, musically hybrid fictional history, ...

Back in September 2023, Bruce Springsteen announced that he would have to shelve his planned tour until March 2024 so he could recover from peptic ulcer disease. The temporary retreat shouldn’t be ...

In 2021, country’s marathon man released a triple album, “Heart & Soul,” with 24 new songs. So the maverick known for tossing Nashville curveballs surprised fans when his follow-up album, last year’s ...

One of one.“ The folklorist and emerita professor Lydia Fish, Ph. D., left us in her sleep on January 20. She was 85–and like that, one of our city’s human treasures is gone. Many of you knew Lydia ...