Lancaster’s Cleo Hearn is a rodeo legend. His four sons have all made their mark on the sport. Even his toddler ...

Ed Atkins, The Worm, 2021, video, 12 min 39 sec. © Ed Atkins. Courtesy the artist, Cabinet Gallery, London, dépendance, ...

Aimee Nolte explores the hidden power of three-note motifs in music, demonstrating their versatility in composition and improvisation. Through analysis of classic pieces, she reveals how these simple ...

From Jimi Hendrix to Merzbow, artist-made music with distortion has become increasingly widespread over the past half-century ...

Unsuk Chin’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” a reinterpretation of the Faust myth, reflects a restless mind with constant ...

Festival of World Music includes performances by two student groups whose music is rooted in uniquely American traditions.

Earlier this year the Library of Congress added the recordings of Nimrod Workman to the National Recording Registry, which ...

Chicago hardcore group Stress Positions are sitting outside a watering hole in the Dutch city of Tilburg, but they’re not far enough from home that they don’t have fans around. A couple of Finnish ...

For his take on “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” Baz Luhrmann took us back to 125th Street during the Harlem Renaissance, where a poem by Coleman Domingo led into Usher’s opening act.

It’s weird, yes, but one reliable sign that a restaurant’s going to be good is that Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” is on the sound system. This is an axiom that has served The Old Critic well over the ...

The track, co-written by Black and director Jared Hess, is only 34-seconds long, making it the shortest song to get on the chart. By McKinley Franklin “Steve’s Lava Chicken” is tasty as hell ...

In the rhythmic landscape of contemporary music ... applied to Black professionals. “I see the other folks do it more than we do it sometimes,” he notes, implying that white industry figures ...