A few years ago at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the effortlessly cool Bozoma Saint John, then running marketing efforts for Apple Music, tried to get the audience to first clap in time to ...

Before hooking up with Run-D.M.C., New York City session veteran Eddie Martinez had made his rounds with Blondie, Robert Palmer, Mick Jagger and David Lee Roth (and let’s not forget his contributions ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Hailing from San Francisco, Calif., the members of Felonious: One Love Hip Hop say using a live band gives their songs "an intricate musical texture." Intertwining beats, bass, drums, keys, beatbox, ...

Earlier this month, when the New Yorker profiled Paul Tollett, the CEO of Goldenvoice and the man responsible for the industry-unto-itself that is Coachella, it made a point to acknowledge that ...

For at least a decade now, rap beats have been getting fiercer every year. The biggest producers in the genre largely abandoned traditional acoustic instrumentation, instead embracing the abrasive ...