The British trio’s third studio album is a virtuosic exploration of brutality that showcases its technical mastery, expanded orchestrations and sardonic humor. By Jon Pareles War, disease, murder, ...

“We don’t use simulators because we’re a real band”: Why Justin Hawkins and The Darkness rock the old-fashioned way PinkPantheress, Billy Bragg, Jamie Cullum and more to spill hitmaking secrets at ...

Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus ...

Begun in 1980, Black Music Research Journal is published in the spring and fall of each year and includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music. Many issues ...

The last time I saw the local band Burns Like Hellfire perform, I detected something new -- something about the band's performance I'd never noticed before. It wasn't the set list, or singer Brian ...