The rise of electronic dance music (EDM) has been nothing short of meteoric over the past decade. What started as a niche movement in underground clubs has now evolved into a global cultural ...

William King on hip-hop’s rise, how the Commodores got their name, and what drove Lionel Richie’s departure.

The music genre that became a global sensation started with some creative teens just getting together and riffing rhymes to DJ Kool Herc’s curated beats ...

An epiphany hit early in Steven Blush’s “When Rock Met Hip-Hop” (Backbeat Books, 2026). I felt dumb for never making the ...

New campaign "The Living Tracklist” seeks to establish a canon for the genre and employs packaging, social content and a ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — 90s legendary hip-hop group Cypress Hill is headed to Las Vegas this fall to close out a resort’s summer ...

Long before streaming platforms and social media reshaped the industry, Beat Street in Downtown Brooklyn was the cultural ...

In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...

On August 11 1973, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw the now legendary Back To School jam in the recreation room of 1520 Sedgewick Avenue in The Bronx, New York. Herc’s party represented a ...

What's going on with rap? After celebrating 50 years of legacy in 2023 with marquee moments like the Hip Hop 50 multi-headliner concert at Yankee Stadium, plus Kendrick Lamar's historic run – capped ...