If you were around in the 1990s, you’ve probably heard of Kris Kross, the pint-sized rap group that had everyone wearing their clothes backwards and moving to their mega hit “Jump.” With the help of ...

Forget] the ‘Big 3,’ it’s just big me.” Those words, rapped by Kendrick Lamar on the 2024 track “Like That,” would ignite a firestorm in hip-hop, forever altering its landscape. Though Kendrick never ...

This week in Philly music, hometown hero Kurt Vile plays two solo shows at Johnny Brenda’s, pianist Robert Glasper settles in ...

Boston remains a place where strong musicianship and songwriting are greatly valued. WBUR music writer Noah Schaffer shares 14 albums that prove just that, from jazz, Celtic-tinged folk, Sephardic ...

Hip-hop may have begun in the Bronx, but over the last 50 years Connecticut has developed its own vibrant artistic and ...

Lupe Fiasco has been hired as a visiting professor at the first-ever Bachelor of Music in Hip Hop degree program at Johns ...

Graffiti art has a long and storied history that stretches back to ancient civilizations, evolving from simple inscriptions ...

Potential turntablists, rappers, beatboxers and producers are applying now for admission to the fall 2025 semester, with ...

In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...