The news of the passing of Ghanaian highlife star Ebo Taylor on 7 February 2026 felt less like the loss of a public musical figure and more like the closing of a living chapter of Ghanaian musical ...

She was seen as a hip-hop temptress when she was still a teenager, and her albums “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number” and “One ...

"Here in Jordan and the Middle East, life doesn’t stop," Lana Elayan, 25, from Amman, the capital city, told Newsweek.

Last year, the people of New York elected a new mayor in democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, an ex-rapper who once sent Stereogum his music. Mamdani is not the only rapper to become a governmental ...

Palestinian rights activists plan to protest the performance of Matisyahu, a pro-Israel Jewish musician visiting Birmingham ...

LA-based Deloyd Elze specializes in deconstructed sad-eyed alt-country. There’s more than a little Bon Iver in the way he dissects the singer-songwriter format, but there’s nothing abstract about his ...

A rap song on YouTube led a 17-year-old boy to conspire with a younger teen last spring and shoot repeatedly into an occupied Lancaster County home, police said in court documents. Trevor Losch, 17, ...

A youth-led uprising brought Nepal’s government down last year. Now, a 35-year-old politician demanding change is set to become prime minister.

Directed by Professor Scott Marcus, head of the Ethnomusicology Program at UCSB, this winter quarter concert, on Saturday, ...

Th Afghan rapper's journey is a call to action, urging women to support one another and the world to take responsibility for ...

Nepal. A nation on the brink. A question echoes across its mountains and valleys: Could its next leader be a rapper? The story of Balen Shah isn't just a political tale. It's an earthquake rumbling ...