In 2025, rock was still hanging in. As artificial intelligence infiltrates music, the genre’s handmade imperfections are more ...

Several notable talents in music, television, film and pop culture died in 2025. On the first day of the year, Wayne Osmond, one-fourth of the original Osmond Brothers, died at age 73.

From the return of Oasis, Radiohead and Pulp to the loss of some of the greats in music and Radio X's very own 10th birthday.

Beware of myth as we approach the nation's 250th year. The true threat to America has always been a white supremacist ...

What does it take to turn a new generation on to classical Ukrainian poetry? One artist has managed to bring out the poetry’s ...

Influential Reprise Records president and free speech advocate Howie Klein has died aged 77, leaving a lasting legacy across music and politics.

Memphis soul singer and songwriter, Don Bryant, died Friday morning, Dec. 26, at the age of 83. He’s best known for ...

Phoenix was set to experience night twenty-six of the US leg of Leon’s Mutts Don’t Heel tour. A sucker for wordplay, the tour ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with songwriter Amy Allen, who is shortlisted for the non-classical Songwriter of the Year Grammy Award for a second straight year.

By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate The black-and-white buddy comedy “Tallywacker” opens on Aleister, its star, a ...

This 1967 Beatles song from Sgt. Pepper was banned at first but went on to redefine rock music and inspire countless ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...