Yasiin Bey never embraced the conscious rap label. But no one embodied it quite like him. He came on the scene with Talib Kweli as
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Representing a bright pinprick of light at the end of a long, dark tunnel, “Drive” was Halsey‘s final single in support of her groundbreaking 2015
It’s fair to say expectations were high for The Boomtown Rats’ third album The Fine Art Of Surfacing. Having first broken through with the U.K.
A legendary bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and consummate showman, Tito Puente’s talents and flamboyance were exceeded perhaps only by his longevity. Commencing his career as a
Sometime in the mid-’90s, Method Man & Redman joined the ranks of things that just go together. Like Kobe and Shaq, the two blended their
Back in 2012, Rihanna‘s “Diamonds” soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week ending on December 1. It became one of
An album that helped to shape the direction of rock music in the 1990s was released on September 21, 1993. Nirvana’s In Utero, produced in
Turmoil fundamentally defined the American zeitgeist of 1968. But for Black Americans in particular that turmoil was nothing less than a deluge of violence: Dr.
A disciple of bebop architect Charlie Parker, wunderkind alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was just twenty when he made his recording debut on Miles Davis’ 1951
“While we were recording The White Album, we ended up being more of a band again,” Ringo Starr would reflect, “and that’s what I always