Afrika Bambaataa, a pioneer in hip-hop and electronic music in the 1970s and '80s, has died. Later in life, he was accused by ...

Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on ...

The 1960s saw a stampede of lefty folk musicians, but none as politically engaged as Phil Ochs. A true activist-musician who ...

In his songs, the Virginia rapper renders societal ills in high definition. He sat down for his first interview with Pitchfork to talk through his feelings about drugs, religion and violence conveyed ...

People queue outside banks as concerns grow over possible renewed fighting between federal and regional forces in Mekele, in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Jan. 31, 2026 Brazil President Lula ...

The former Sunset Boulevard location of Amoeba Music has a future as a health and wellness hub. Projected to open in early 2028, New York City-based Bathhouse will transform the once music epicenter ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea are deploying troops and military equipment to the northern Tigray region, according to regional diplomats, raising the risk of renewed conflict in the Horn of Africa. The buildup ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Kate Hudson says she was once told she was “too old” to start a music career, but she didn’t let that stop her dream. The 46-year-old actress spoke about this and her evolving ...

For two long years, Kidist Redaie was displaced from her hometown in Alamata, Ethiopia—years marked by fear, loss, and profound uncertainty—after renewed fighting erupted in Tigray in 2022. At the ...

Sometime in the mid-two-thousands, when people would still hand you cassette tapes or CDs at shows or in record stores or during hangouts in someone’s parents’ basement or smoke-filled apartment, I ...

The routine is familiar by now. Nervous queues outside banks running rapidly out of cash. Empty shelves, soaring prices, frantic hoarding of food. Over the past year residents of Tigray, Ethiopia’s ...