From tongue-in-check antics poking fun at the music industry to heartfelt odes to salsa, here's what we loved this year.

De Los, the L.A. Times' Latin culture wing, lists its favorite albums by Latino artists in 2025, including albums by Bad ...

When his family moved from West to East Oakland, Calif., young D’Wayne Wiggins had to make new friends amid a tsunami of ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Pooh Shiesty, J Hus, FLO, Sasha Keable, Otis Kane, Def Soulja, GENA & Samara Cyn.

For the sixth consecutive year, Marley’s Legend compilation album registers top sales in the genre, while no releases from ...

These forgotten songs from 1997 might have slipped your mind, but they were all the rage back in the late 1990s.

Brit Award winner, Grammy nominee and lead singer of legendary icons Five Star,  Deniece Pearson  has brought sonic sunshine ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong ...

Indeed he did. Nobody stayed on the record, and Skindred’s debut album, Babylon, was released on July 3, 2002. But the drama ...

Time to dust off those old CDs! Join us as we count down the 90s rock songs that deserve way more love than they get. From alt-rock anthems to pop-punk classics, these tracks defined a generation but ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The story of Jimmy Cliff, who has died at age 81, is in part the story of reggae itself. Like so many Jamaican teens of his time, he moved to Kingston in the early 1960s and joined a ...

Obit Jimmy Cliff FILE - Jamaican musician, singer and actor Jimmy Cliff performs during the Timbre Rock and Roots concert on Friday March 22, 2013 in Singapore. (AP ...