Mexicans in Oaxacan towns as San Agustín and San José Etla celebrate their traditional “muerteadas,” a festivity that stretches for several nights and locals regard as part of their identity.
Cher is obviously a superstar but even a superstar is happy to be the opening act when it comes to Santa.
Chinese boy band WayV forage their own path on their highly anticipated sophomore album, “On My Youth.”
Taemin, the prince of gritty K-pop, is back with a stunning 4th mini album, “Guilty.” It is his first since finishing his mandatory military enlistment in the South Korean army.
At age 90, Willie Nelson is looking back on the songs he’s written across seven decades. The country legend’s new book, “Energy Follows Thought,” gives the stories behind his most famous songs and some obscure ones too.
There’s Mark Tuan, the K-pop musician. And then there’s “Digital Mark.” The artist whose new EP is out Friday partnered with Soul Machines to create an artificial intelligence-powered avatar.
Taylor Swift’s reimagined “1989” is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift era — revisited at the height of her massive pop culture dominance.
Not so long before her platinum single “Tennessee Orange” became inescapable on country radio, Megan Moroney was attending the University of Georgia.
On the Mountain Goats’ 22nd album “Jenny from Thebes,” the full band flexes its muscle with a record that at times sounds like Broadway, writes the Associated Press’ Michael Casey.
On Friday, an extensive reissue box set of the classic Prince & the New Power Generation 1991 album “Diamonds and Pearls” will be released.
How does a group follow up their biggest release to date? In the case of K-pop act SEVENTEEN, they continue to grow their successes and release another mini-album in the same year.
Singer-songwriter Poppy has returned with her fifth studio album. The Associated Press’ Kiana Doyle describes “Zig” as an experimental, immersive mix of several different styles.
There aren’t that many Halloween albums out there and so tip your masks to Duran Duran for giving us a treat this spooky season, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy.
You’d be hard pressed to find a rap duo doing it like City Girls, bringing life-affirming, pretty-girl scam rap to the masses.
This week’s new entertainment releases include Taylor Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” a glossy look at opioid addiction with the movie “Pain Hustlers” starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia, and the streaming horror flick “Five Nights at Freddy’s.”
In the music video for “Por La Familia,” a new track from Carín León and BorderKid, León is whisked away into a surrealist landscape inspired by Mexico. His taxi driver?
There isn’t much Cher hasn’t done in her career. She’s achieved EGOT status. She’s the only artist to have a No. 1 song in each of the past six decades.
Dove Cameron’s new single starts with the sound of maniacal laughter and then a piano riff that could have been swiped from “The Phantom of the Opera.”
The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of their first collection of new original songs in 18 years with a club gig in Manhattan before a few hundred invited guests.
Lauryn Hill kicked off her “Miseducation’’ tour to a hometown crowd. The “Ms. Lauryn Hill & Fugees: Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 25th Anniversary Tour opened Tuesday night in Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center, located about 20 minutes away from her hometown of East Orange.
Where does Bad Bunny go from his blockbuster 2022 album, “Un Verano Sin Ti,” one of The Associated Press’ top albums of the year?
Music Review: The Rolling Stones show time’s (still) on their side with crackling ‘Hackney Diamonds’
Those exultant sounds you hear on “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” the penultimate track on the Rolling Stones’ terrific new album “Hackney Diamonds,” are Mick Jagger and Lady Gaga trying to one-up each other vocally.
While recalling his remarkable yet erratic life in music, Sly Stone admits he occasionally had to depend on the recollections of others because his own memory wasn’t always reliable.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s mother describes him as like a lot of other young people. The 23-year-old from Jerusalem loves music, wants to see the world and, now that he’s finished his military service, has plans to go to university, his family says.
In 2019, when the K-pop group TOMORROW X TOGETHER first debuted, they were best known as the first BigHit Entertainment boy band since BTS.
On Friday, Migos rapper Offset released his ambitious second solo album, “Set It Off.” In doing so, he’s also announced a new era.
On “Water Made Us,” the third studio album from Chicago-based neo-soul musician and poet Jamila Woods, romantic love is a featured topic.
More than 30 years after the musical “Harmony” was written, it finally prepares to make its Broadway debut. The show was almost lost to history — like its subject.
In a new book titled “Goth: A History,” The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces a misunderstood subculture.
A third of the way through her debut album, “Paint My Bedroom Black,” Holly Humberstone initiates a slow dance, but one set in an anxious daydream.
On Saturday, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams embarked on her 2023 tour, kicking off at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.