• Fall music preview: 5 new albums to curb the pandemic blues

    Fall music preview: 5 new albums to curb the pandemic blues

    Sad, but true: There won’t be any big tours coming to an arena near you this fall. Nor will there be any theater concerts or club shows to keep live music pumping. But there’s one thing the pandemic can’t touch, and that’s the pop parade of new albums marching through this season. Although there are …
  • Celebrate Juneteenth with these new songs, from Teyana Taylor to Aretha

    Celebrate Juneteenth with these new songs, from Teyana Taylor to Aretha

    In celebration of Juneteenth — marking the freeing of the last enslaved Americans, on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas — black artists have exercised their creative freedom with new music. And with June also being Black Music Month, it reminds us that music has always been an important part of the black experience in …
  • Chuck D admits on April Fools’ Day that Flavor Flav’s firing was a hoax

    Chuck D admits on April Fools’ Day that Flavor Flav’s firing was a hoax

    Don’t believe the hype! Chuck D has admitted the monthlong feud that saw Flavor Flav fired from Public Enemy was just a hoax — finally coming clean in time to promote a new record on April Fools’ Day. Dubbing it “April ‘FlavChuck’ Day,” the legendary rapper admitted the plan was initially to reveal all during …