Charli XCX goes avant‑garde with House, her haunting new single for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights film soundtrack.

A version of this story about Pharrell Williams and “The Black Godfather” first appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. Music-business executive Clarence Avant may have helped ...

W hen Rosalia releases new music, the world tends to stop and listen. With LUX, her latest project, the Spanish artist once ...

Plus: Bitchin Bajas play a rare set of their Sun Ra material at a screening of Space Is the Place, and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson supports a new single (and headliner KeiyaA) at Sleeping Village.

In 1960, Ray Charles released an album that, as he later said, was built around a “corny idea” — to which he added, “but then, I’m a corny guy.” It was admittedly not a very original concept: the ...

David Byrne is releasing a new album, Who Is the Sky?, September 5 via Matador. Now the former Talking Heads frontman has shared its third single, “The Avant Garde.” Listen below. Byrne had this to ...

Long acclaimed as a sculptor, Birmingham, Ala., native Lonnie Holley commenced an astonishing recording career in his 60s, working with indie-rockers like Richard Swift, Matthew E. White and ...

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