Miami is honoring artists hailing from its Liberty City neighborhood by naming streets after legendary songs. Some of the ...

Sister Nancy’s groundbreaking 1982 debut album, One Two, will be reissued on vinyl for the first time in over four decades.

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” features works of Black art on display until July 13.

The song was not (like, at all) great, but the wild cross-genre supergroup—DJ Kool Herc, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Gil Scott-Heron, Pat Benatar, Bono, and Miles Davis to name but a very ...

but in Cymande’s case, it’s legit. Patrick Patterson, 2024. (Credit: John Phillips/Getty Images) We now recognize DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant to the Bronx, as the Prime Mover of hip-hop.

Herc Holdings will acquire Baton Rouge-based H&E Equipment Services in a transaction expected to close in mid-2025, according to a statement. The deal comes after a twist: H&E had a prior merger ...