What sort of imagery does the word punk inspire? Spiky, colorful hair, studs and anarchy signs; hordes of people crammed into mosh pits, jumping and pushing their sweaty selves against each other in ...

Sugar Hill Gang hit the airwaves, Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was crafting verses that could rival the best of them.

Whatever it was, there was special excitement Wednesday night at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. It was the return to the United States for Cymande, a British soul band that had a brief run in the ...

The wait is over and Washington, D.C.’s very own Go-Go Museum and Café opened on Wednesday. The museum opened its doors at 11 ...

It's part of a $35 million commitment to jazz from the Mellon Foundation. The foundation plans to donate to the Pittsburgh ...

A new documentary, The Odyssey, will comb through a century of traditional Nigerian music to arrive at the present, say ...

Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black ...

It includes Dasha, the country singer-songwriter whose song “Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)” sparked a viral dance craze; Reece ...

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, better known by his stage name — Kendrick Lamar — is one of the most successful and influential hip-hop artists of the 21st century. Lamar, who's from Compton, California, ...

Growing up in Western Sydney in the 80s, he encountered a lot of racism. It's an experience that led him to hip hop music ... Newton and all these Afro-American scholars that weren't taught ...

Good afternoon, this is W42ST Lifestyle Editor Sarah Beling with “Make Way For The Weekend” — your curated guide to the best of New York events in one convenient newsletter! OK team, I went out into ...