Early engagement with music has been shown to boost language development, memory retention and even brain development.

One of the more colorful and fun people in gaming is Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, who has made a career of composing great game music ...

Vance jailed for threatening Vance: In what might be one of the oddest criminal cases of 2025, a 67-year-old Grand Rapids man named James Donald Vance, Jr. was sentenced Monday to two years in federal ...

Busta Rhymes rapped over D'Angelo's 2000 song "One Mo'Gin." By Mackenzie Cummings-Grady Busta Rhymes paid homage to his longtime friend D’Angelo with a new song called “Magic,” which finds Busta ...

Few artists of his era blurred the lines between sacred and sensual quite like D'Angelo, who died Tuesday at 51. With his unmistakable voice, deep-rooted musicianship and devotion to craft over ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. D'Angelo, the voice behind one of Red Dead Redemption 2's most memorable moments, has passed away. While tributes pour in from the music industry, ...

Our list of the 10 best songs by the neo-soul architect, from Brown Sugar to Black Messiah. When it comes to the past three decades of R&B, particularly the development of the neo-soul movement, ...

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music. By Jon Pareles In his music, ...

A Los Angeles kindergarten teacher is proving you can shape young minds by day and shape the sound of hip-hop by night. Alex Ochoa, who produces music under the name Otxoa, has gone viral after ...

In a 1989 memoir called “Self-Consciousness,” John Updike (1932-2009) remembered his childhood sense “of an embowering wide world arranged for my mystification and entertainment.” In many ways, this ...

Swift released her 12th studio album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ on Friday (October 3), the follow-up to last year’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, and of the 12 new songs, none has been dissected ...

To the Editor: When Kelly Ayotte ran for governor, she promised that fixing New Hampshire’s broken bail system would be a top priority. Too often in politics, promises like that are made during a ...