Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO’s cultural ...

Welcome to music in 2025. KATSEYE has been crowned TikTok’s Global Artist of the Year 2025, cementing their status as the biggest band on the platform and one of the most influential pop acts in the ...

Reba McEntire turned her heartbreak into one of the most powerful songs of her career in 1991.

The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa ...

There may be no higher art in Somalia than oral poetry, which is recited in the most remote outposts and even by militants.

According to Billboard’s "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, the No. 1 song in the U.S. is "Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust—an artist that was created by artificial intelligence (AI). Newsweek ...

On Friday, Oct. 17, Ella Langley released a new song called “Choosin’ Texas,” a track about Texans loyalty to their state. In the song, Langley tells a story about how she couldn’t keep her man, a ...

This house music, it's gonna set you free. In 2025 house music is such a globally popular and varied genre that its origins in early 1980s Chicago warehouses seem improbable. But the myth of house ...

Brett Ryback showed up for his first day of school at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre to discover he had a substitute teacher. Chamber opened its production of "Old Wicked Songs" Sept. 20 with the surprise ...

After the metal and synth-pop dominance of the 1980s, the world was overdue for a new generation of artists that would change the trajectory of music forever. Leather jackets, hair spray, and tight ...

Many current country fans hail the 1990s as the genre’s high point. The decade saw some of the biggest names in the business rise to superstar status, and something close to traditional country ...