Both genres recently celebrated big birthdays. From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip ...

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the first solo female rapper to take home a Grammy for lifetime achievement.“I ...

After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in ...

The NYC electronic duo The Knocks and Canadian dance-pop diva Dragonette reveal the first installment of their collaboration ...

DJ Pauly Guwop is bringing the power of hip-hop’s golden age into Charlotte’s present with his new digital publication, It’s ...

February ends on the 28th at the Big Room with a night of East Los Angeles “souldies” with The Altons and Thee Sinseers. The Altons say that the quartet “curate (s) a ballad of retro-indie-soul” bit ...

Roxanne Shanté Named First Solo Female Rapper to Win Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award In an unprecedented move that celebrates her monumental contributions to hip-hop, Roxanne Shanté has become the ...

The older brother of Too Short, Wayne Shaw, was shot several times in East Oakland and died several hours later in a local ...

Then there was Hard Rock Cafe, a similar concept centering on music. Each location had its walls festooned with signed ...

The Courant’s arts picks for Feb. 2-8 includes an immigration-themed concert, country crooners and a side of comic relief.

While interesting, Elegance Bratton’s documentary falls short of being the definitive voice on Chicago’s role in house music ...

No artist is supposed to be in competition for their whole career, but Rick Rubin knew some of his favourite acts were their ...