Nigerian superstar Rema is redefining African pop music — and has scored a record-breaking single in the process. But he had to overcome a tragic past ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of ...

Critic Ann Powers considers musical performances that have left audiences stunned in utter silence, and what you can hear when sound falls away.

Rio Grande do Sul floods in Brazil, 183 people died and over 600,000 Brazilians were displaced. Staff and faculty at the ...

Gather25 reflects our desire to sing together but also the struggle to capture the diverse sounds of the church around the ...

Rwandan music diva Bwiza on Monday, March 3, departed Kigali for Brussels, Belgium, where she will launch her second album, 25 Shades, on March 8. The event will coincide with International Women’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The way we consume music today is dominated by wireless streaming. Over 88 per cent of the way we ...

Despite the diplomatic frictions between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, artists from both countries have been trying to find their own ways to foster compassion and collaboration.

Solange is an architect of sonic and visual worlds; a multi-disciplinary artist who builds entire universes. From critically acclaimed albums A Seat at the Table to When I Get Home, her music ...

In the years since, it has been bestowed sparingly — if a song has moved at least 10 million equivalent units by combining sales and streaming numbers and if an artist or label requests ...

A sound and music artist who creates work from noise, art, bass wave, sample collage and avant-garde R&B has been chosen as the 2025 recipient of the Hermitage Greenfield Prize for music.