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Colette Shade’s essays offer trenchant commentary on politics and culture from 1997 through 2008.

With this being the first Notable Releases since December 13, I’m using it to catch up on anything released since late December, and I’ve got reviews of five new records below. Bill reviews the new ...

Hip-hop may have begun in the Bronx, but over the last 50 years Connecticut has developed its own vibrant artistic and ...

Sid Kingston will appear at the Jarvis Square Tavern on Friday, Jan. 10 The kids are back in school and some of us are ...

Flo Rida sparked a viral debate after announcing his upcoming single featuring K-Pop stars Heeseung and Jake and Paul Russell.

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In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...