Blues singer Shemekia Copeland has come a long way since 1998, when her first album “Turn Up the Heat” thrust her into the spotlight as a major artist in that important American music genre. She has ...

What makes a great song? Naturally, a song needs compelling production and sweet melodies, but the most important (and sometimes most underrated) factor is the lyrics. If an artist can tell a ...

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

Given how many outstanding albums were released that year, how can any respectable music critic — well, me — claim it was an inferior year compared to 1972, 1973 or 1974? Those were the exact years ...

It was half a century last week since Clough took over at Nottingham Forest. Was there ever a manager in the history of the game who had a more dramatic effect in his first five years of being in ...

Robin Ticciati conducts the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin in works by Smyth, Busoni and Schumann. Presented by Penny Gore. Robin Ticciati conducts the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin in works by ...

I was a counselor-in-training at Herzl Camp in Webster, Wisconsin. If you also found your Jewish essence, your neshama, your ...

Critics’ picks for entertainment in the week ahead.

The song’s experimental and soulful, perfectly combining the voices of the three artists into a harmonious, blended and ...

This tough little speaker delivers great sound, is water-proof and dust-proof, and is marked down to only $30 today. And did ...