Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Pridgett to a touring minstrel family, shaped blues in the early 20th century blending her ...

Veteran blues musician Tinsley Ellis takes on new territory and strips down, delving into the acoustic blues traditions of ...

Route 66 is so iconic, and not just Woody, but other musicians have traveled it going out to California to seek the American ...

The first live performance at the inaugural Riga Music Week is by Saucējas. This seven-piece vocal ensemble is avowedly ...

From Tyler, the Creator to PJ Harvey, the Michigan Daily’s Music Beat writers give their takes on the best NPR Tiny Desk performances.

Broadway Rave, 8 p.m., The Senate, 1022B Senate St., Columbia. It’s a Broadway Dance Party featuring the best in showtunes ...

Moby had all but thrown in the towel, but the surprising success of his eclectic 1999 masterpiece forever changed his ...

Fayetteville native and traveling troubadour Sean Harrison launched Songwright - Dickson St., a songwriter series that kicked ...

His brother, like most everyone else at the time, was a huge fan of The Beatles and introduced a young Tracy Lee Nelson to ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

A group of young Russian street musicians who went viral on social media for playing banned anti-Kremlin songs received more jail time on Wednesday, as authorities crack down on buskers who have ...

The Russian prosecution office opened a case against 18-year-old Diana “Naoko” Loginova, a student at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and vocalist of the St. Petersburg street band Stoptime. The ...