Fans of legendary Congolese singer M’pongo Love will next week mark her 35th death anniversary. M’pongo is fondly remembered ...

One of the founding partners of theartsdesk back in the day, author of the immersive Manu Chao biography, Clandestino, roving ...

Bruno Mars, Jill Scott and Mandy, Indiana have new albums on the way, and a frantic tune from an anime film is No. 1 in Japan ...

Rawayana's sixth album, '¿Dónde Es El After?,' is a vibrant show of Venezuelan pride amid conflict — with a prescient message ...

Bruno Mars ’ music is so ubiquitous it’s easy to forget he hasn’t released a new solo effort in 10 years. That changes next ...

My grandfather Sidney Lipsyte, the son of immigrants who became a New York City public-school teacher and administrator, lived from 1904 to 2005, a good run I don’t expect to match. He witnessed, and ...

Apple today released iOS 26.2 for iPhone users, and the update brings several key changes for Apple Music. There’s also a fix for a viral bug that impacted the release of new albums on the service … ...

This week’s new movies on VOD include some of this year’s most-talked-about performances from some of the most-talked-about women in film. Jennifer Lawrence goes all in as a struggling new mother in ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Kaguya-sama: Love is War – The Stairway to Adulthood is going to be making its premiere in Japan ...

It's Friday, and that means we've reached our final 2025 episode of New Music Friday. While most of the music internet has moved on to looking backward (including the latest episode of All Songs ...

We love those classic Christmas recordings. And we cherish the chance to hear Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, Darlene Love and other greats sing these standards each ...