The Lekki Tollgate massacre silenced some voices forever, but these Afrobeats records prove that the music itself remains a ...

Rapper BIA talks her first studio album after a decade in music, Latin music influences, her growth and staying clear of the ...

Sierra Leonean musician and activist Emmerson Bockarie is no stranger to controversy, having received death threats from all ends of the country's political spectrum over two decades and three ...

Subtitled ‘The First 50 Years’, this 27-track package is a heavyweight reminder of what a dynamic force The Boomtown Rats have always been.

Whether it's the lyrics, production style, or creative visuals, artists have always drawn inspiration from other musicians. And sometimes, that admiration runs so deep, they don't just name-drop their ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

And while the new record, titled “The Life of a Showgirl,” isn’t her 13th (which of course is her favorite number), it is one of her most eagerly awaited albums to date for several reasons. “Obviously ...

Caption:The ledger in which the Purchasing Committee recorded (AKA Dirty Records Committee) hundreds of banned songs.Photo credit:RNZ / Samuel Rillstone It began with a book. An old-fashioned ledger, ...

The popular vote does not officially determine the winner of presidential elections, but it does offer a look at who individual voters prefer in the White House. The Electoral College is the final ...

As Paris Fashion Week begins, nostalgia sometimes comes at the expense of impact. By Vanessa Friedman Reporting from Paris Paris Fashion Week opened with a Saint Laurent show held on the plaza between ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...