Music & Culture

Heather Trost's organ-driven pop spectacle channels the delightfully cheesy and psychedelic late-night performances seen on Eastern European TV.

The band broke up in 1996 after frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and bassist Chris Bauermeister got into a fistfight.

An EP of previously unreleased Prince songs scheduled for release this Friday may be in jeopardy.

Watch pianist Robert Glasper demonstrate how three samples from jazz tracks by Ahmad Jamal and Herbie Hancock served as source material for famed hip-hop producers J Dilla and Pete Rock.

With the first single, "Hard Times," Paramore effortlessly flecks a disco song with Afro-pop guitar for a sound straight from a John Hughes movie.

The Saskatoon trio's songs purr seductively, with warmly shimmering guitars and an overarching subtlety that's inviting, never distant.

Somewhere in your music-listening life, you've probably heard something the Grammy-winning guitarist and producer has touched. Now, he's singing his own songs for the first time.

The R&B singer's new record is intricate and organic. It's the sum of his many influences, including pop, cumbia and childhood days spent interrupting Philip Glass' practice sessions.

Kendrick Lamar contains it all, claims it all, and doesn't have time for the single-minded platitudes people throw down upon him.