Etran de L'Aïr ("stars of the Aïr region") are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that has an estimated population approximately the size of Santa Fe County, situated in a ...

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Riley Baugus, a Walkertown native, grew up listening to blues and classic country musicians. At the age of 10, he started playing music and learned how to play the fiddle, banjo and guitar. Later, he ...

The pervasive sultry sounds and hypnotic syncopations of Latin-America’s artistic heritage have pulsed across the Americas’ ...

With “Sinners,” filmmaker Ryan Coogler creates a big, flawed, juicy blues folktale of Black enterprise vs. vampires, literal ...

The "Creed" and "Black Panther" director breaks free of franchises for a wholly original project starring Michael B. Jordan ...

The woman famous for that fingering style was ... of 75 influential African-American women. A year after her death, the Smithsonian honored Cotten by inducting one of her guitars into its ...

Trap is just one of hip-hop’s many influences on electronic music. Genres such as grime (London), UK garage, Afrobeats (West Africa), and drill (Chicago) share similar roots, showcasing hip-hop’s ...

One of the longest performing reggae bands of all time, Jamaica’s Third World continues to captivate audiences with their appealing mix of soul, funk, African music and pop infused into their reggae ...