October is when the best of the fall has to prove itself before the onslaught of holiday sets. Highlights this month: John Legend enlists Pharrell to produce an entire set; Fontaines D.C. returns ...

A Zambian band once added its own sound to the Western songs it covered. Sampa the Great makes hip-hop the next layer on that ...

The leader of a gospel choir generally looks in two directions: his back is to the singers, who need to see his hands, and his face is directed toward the audience, who need to see a confident man of ...

Originally from Naples at the bottom of Florida’s Gulf Coast, Dominic Fike didn’t live in his own house much as a child, staying with his older brother or other relatives and friends. He was given his ...

In the spring of 1991, Los Angeles was tried on videotape twice within two weeks. One private recording showed police officers surrounding Rodney King on the side of a Lake View Terrace road, their ...

Over Real Bad Man’s unbudging loops, Boldy James raps the Detroit dope trade as a family business, with an aunt for a ...

Welcome back to another issue of Wednesday Roundups! Diving into today’s music can be overwhelming with the constant influx of albums and singles, as 100,000+ tracks are uploaded daily. That’s where ...

Raised in a church choir, Khal!l turns its oldest reassurances on a woman he hasn’t told everything to, then carries them ...

On their latest album, Ishmael Butler writes himself into legend as a one-of-a-kind and puts that legend on the court against ...

Between a wedding oath and a late-night text, Vedo makes an excellent R&B album about what a man owes the woman he keeps.

Decades of answering to no label have left GDP free and mostly alone. Cross Off Matthew puts his own vanishing act under the ...