December 20, 2024 • For NPR Music's hip-hop and R&B editor, no list could capture an accurate picture of the year, yet there's still value in calling out the albums that felt unignorable.

December 20, 2024 • For NPR Music's hip-hop and R&B editor, no list could capture an accurate picture of the year, yet there's still value in calling out the albums that felt unignorable.

With streams earning artists pennies, music’s cash increasingly comes from big tours with no shortage of fans willing to pay ...

Viduthalai 2, the highly anticipated Tamil period crime thriller directed by Vetrimaaran, continues the intense story of ...

Marco, the much-anticipated Malayalam action thriller directed by Haneef Adeni, stars Unni Mukundan in the lead role. Released on December 20, 2024, the film follows Marcos quest to uncover a family ...

A Death in the Family” best describes the Canadian music industry’s reaction to the Dec. 19 passing of David Farrell in the ...

Ben Goad, a longstanding leader of The Tennessean, has been named executive editor of the 117-year-old newspaper and digital ...

They made a list, and we’re checking it twice. Gonna find out if they prefer naughty or nice. Christmas (cinema) is all ...

The beloved Dallas DJ, known to many as DJ Mr. Rid, and musician lost his battle with lung and kidney cancer in November at ...

The temptation to selectively build a narrative from the various fragments of footage and sound ultimately patronises the era’s Jazz titans ...

From a stunningly ambitious history lesson to a career high from an R&B icon to standout debuts from two rising stars, THR’s ...

From a scathing diss track-turned-international banger to a duet featuring two pop queens to an R&B groove bursting with '90s nostalgia, THR’s music editor picks his favorite bops of the year.