After building a cult following online and through its wildly popular pop-ups, Avant Culture Club has finally put down ...

The Greatest of All-Time Pop Songs Artists and Songs rankings are based on weekly performance on the Pop Songs chart (from its Oct. 3, 1992, inception through Sept. 30, 2017). Artists and Songs are ...

Despite her lofty ambitions, the avant-pop singer is at her most compelling when grounded in the earthly pleasures of four-to-the-floor beats and straightforward, theatrical hooks. The positioning ...

As the wide-eyed optimism of 1967 crashed into a year of global riots and war, rock music grew darker, heavier, and far more ...

Exceleration Music and NexTone have acquired the recording and publishing catalog of Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan’s most ...

Aided by Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Sampha and more, the cello-playing singer-songwriter’s abstracted yet tuneful second album is worth the seven year wait Seven years separate the release of ...

On her most vital album in over two decades, pop music’s grande dame proves she still knows how to make us move At a recent listening session attended by NME, Price explained that this album is less ...

James Blood Ulmer, the innovative guitarist who fused avant-garde jazz with funk and the blues, died on June 3, according to a statement his family published via DownBeat. A cause of death was not ...

John Cale aimed to subvert the new expectations of rock and roll, spurred on by The Beatles, when he formed The Velvet ...

Is passion another form of death? Desire and obsession coalesce. The soul, smeared with the heart’s funerary ashes, bleeds into something unrecognizable. It is the highest of fevers, the throes of ...

Midway through Rosalía’s TD Garden set on Thursday night, a small clutch of fans shuffled on stage and were directed to stand behind a small rope fence, the type one might find at a gallery or museum, ...

A co-founder of Pig Iron Theater Company, known for its surreal productions, he also gave energetic performances as his alter ego, Martha Graham Cracker. Dito van Reigersberg as his drag persona, ...