Roasting alive in London’s concrete oven in the hottest May day since records began, attention constantly waylaid by warnings of incoming climate-induced societal collapse, lends an added intensity to ...

Starting your own festival is no small feat, especially one dedicated to what some consider “difficult” music. Yet organizer Robert Traxler, whose occupation as a software developer pales before his ...

Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.

Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist and restless genius whose bold, distinctive tone and constant experimentation kept him ...

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practicing in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York bridge to reinvent his playing and become one of the giants of jazz, died at the ...

Backed by the tight musicianship of her nine-piece backing band, Doja Cat treated a 23,500-strong crowd at Manchester’s Co-op ...

Punk rock started in 1976 in New York, when four cretins from Queens came up with a mutant strain of blitzkrieg bubblegum.

On The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis’ latest collab, all bets are off on where Pirog will take his guitar next ...

Saxophonist Andrew Gaffey, who is this year’s winner of the Krannert Center Debut Artist Award, gave a wide-ranging program of classical music for the saxophone, titled “Shades of Saxophone,” before ...

With help from Aaron Dessner, Bon Iver and Lucinda Williams, the Americana artist shares his uncertainties around his roots and relationships in unhurried, subtly melancholic songs ...

Since breaking through as a pop star with her Control album 40 years ago, Janet Jackson has amassed one of the great song catalogs in pop or R&B history. Of course, she’s racked up hits like few other ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...