Mark LeVine is a longtime contributor to Afropop Worldwide, also a scholar, musician and author of numerous books. Here, he reviews Rikki Stein's memoir, Moving Music. Afropop's Banning Eyre recently ...

Among a litany of legendary 1960s performances, one defining closed the epochal Woodstock free festival and granted the event its most iconic moment.

Join us for our traditional look back at the news and features that floated your boat this year. Back in 1990, Guitarist magazine caught up with The Who guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, who ...

It's not exactly glaringly obvious, but the riff from a lesser known Hendrix track became the backbone to a very well known ...

An irreplaceable collection of more than 3800 artworks by leading Australian artists – including Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Charles Blackman and John Perceval – has been evacuated from the fire path ...

2024 was full of country dude crossovers, but once again, there can only be one – on this Top 40, at least. And it ain’t the guy who got filmed using racial slurs and managed to become less ...

When it comes to CD and vinyl box sets, when is too much simply too much? In a word, never. How else to explain this year’s release of such massive sets as Bob Dylan and the Band’s “The 1974 Live ...

Conan Gray, JADE, Remi Wolf and many more served up pop tracks that should have crossed over this year. By Jason Lipshutz Editor In 2024, pop music was defined by a combination of A-list ...

Whatever you’d call it, 2024 was a wild ride on the pop culture rollercoaster. From a “missing” princess to a viral hippo to the second demise of the Noughties’ most infamous celebrity couple, a lot ...

In 2023, I absolutely loved launching the K-Pop Yearbook, celebrating a year in the genre with superlative-style accolades. Putting together these titles for soloists, bands, and music that moved us ...

Sex Pistols with Frank Carter, Iggy Pop, The Toy Dolls or Sweet: these are just some of the talented bands and artists confirmed for the new edition of the Festival Rétro C Trop. The event is not ...

The players include fellow hard-bop pioneers Art Blakey and Horace Silver ... essay by the award-winning Davis author Ashley Kahn. Jimi Hendrix’s “Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix ...