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Whether mixing up free-jazz and ‘80s punk-funk with Rip Rig and Panic on“Storm The Reality Asylum,”or rap and electro-pop on her own 1989 hit“Buffalo Stance”, Neneh Cherry has always bent styles to serve her own ends. She’s still doing it onBroken Politics, which folds a career’s worth of musical obsessions …

On paper, Valee and Matt Ox shouldn’t work. One half of the duo has spent a year building and deconstructing flows like a carpenter, the other is a prepubescentrapper trying to turn a meme-able moment into a sustainable career.In the case of “Awesome,” though, the Chicago and Philly rapper concoct …

One of the best scenes in the 1995 Kevin Smith-directed classicMallratsrevolves around a painting of dots that reveal a three-dimensional sailboat if you stare at it long enough. The gag is that one character, Willam, who longingly looks at the painting can’t see anything, while everyone around him can, but …

This Friday, October 19th, marks the 20thanniversary of Cher‘s “Believe,” the hit song that ended up predicting our future of techno-bubblegum and robo-warble. A massive hit in 1998and 1999 — it was Number One in America, the U.K., Australia, France, Germany and more — it helped introduced the world to …

13 months ago, the brother duo Mau y Ricky weren’t having much luck as artists — none of their singles had charted. Songwriting was another matter: Ricky had reached the Top Five in Mexico with his work on Thalia’s “Por Lo Que Reste de Vida,” and both men had then …

More than half a century ago, the Velvet Underground formed in downtown Manhattan and five decades later, the group has given their blessing to a new exhibition devoted to their legacy. The Velvet Underground Experience opened in Greenwich Village this week — a quick walk from where they first formed …

Forty years ago, John Prine made his Austin City Limits debut in the venerable music series’ third season. Prine has since returned to the ACL stage several times and will do so again this weekend, performing a mix of classic material and new songs from his most recent album, The …

Lil Wayne, Lauryn Hill and Meek Mill will be among the dozens of artists to take the stage at the fourth annual Tidal X: Brooklyn benefit concert, which will benefit criminal justice reform organizations. Vic Mensa, Anderson .Paak, the Roots’ Black Thought, Kodak Black, Teyana Taylor, Kaskade, Normani, the Lox …

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry will embark on a headlining tour this fall in support of his new album, Sweetzerland Manifesto. The trek starts November 30th at the Anthem at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Sioux City, Iowa and includes stops in Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco. …

Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter V has been a white whale for hip-hop enthusiasts since 2014, so it was surprising last month when the rapper Young Thug predicted that the long-awaited album was sure to fall short. “I’m Wayne’s biggest fan,” Young Thug wrote, “but [Tha Carter V] not goin’ to …