Donna Summer, the undisputed Queen of Disco, shocked the music world with her hidden talent for crafting timeless hits. Her ...

There was a lot of great new music in 2025 by New Orleans artists. Here are five favorites to keep on repeat well past 2025, ...

This year's best albums include Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," Lily Allen's "West End Girl," and Addison Rae's ...

English releases include blues band Bluestackface’s Yet To Prove, Priyanka Nath’s Falling From Grace, Zohran Miranda's How To ...

And anything that benefits Bay Area artists — like those listed below — can’t be bad. Here are the releases that caught my ...

Welcome to SOUND FILES, a deep dive with area musicians and music lovers into one specific entry in the U.S. National Recording Registry. Keith Lockhart joins Edgar B. Herwick III to wax operatic ...

That’s the thinking behind the next installment of Rock Music Menu’s Holiday Gift Guide, and the first onedesigned ...

An album review for Erykah Badu's seventh studio album wasn't one of the most read stories, because it was never released.

We aren’t really sure why Christmas music is so controversial. Maybe it is its unrelenting ubiquity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. It could be some of the overplayed, hideous songs ...

The Progressive Youth Club of Ho launched its first Borborbor album, Nugawoe Mawu Dzrado Di Nam (Greater Things the Lord has ...

From a folk song with purpose from Buffalo Nichols to Trapper Schoepp's strongest album to date, these were the best local music releases of the year.

There are still folks to whom my yearly holiday greeting is “Merry Krimble,” a classic onomatopoeiacal Beatle-ism uttered on ...