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Britain's Duchess of Cambridge has reportedly lined up Adele to sing at her birthday in January (16).

Nelly escaped jail time after a judge dropped a felony drug charge against him stemming from his April arrest in Tennessee.

Multi-platinum music icon Prince has surprised fans globally with the unexpected release of a new 12-song album, HITNRUN PHASE TWO.

Just 24 hours after Lady Gaga received a Golden Globe nomination for her first ever acting role in "American Horror Story Hotel

Dev Hynes performed at two Blood Orange & Friends benefit shows at the Apollo Theater in Harlem yesterday, with all the proceeds from the event going to the Opus 118 Harlem School Of Music. As the “& Friends” part su...

Kendrick Lamar‘s stellar 2015 continues even in its waning moments. On Saturday (Dec. 12), the “Alright” rapper was the grand marshal of the annual Compton Christmas Parade. Reports TMZ: Kendrick Lamar and YG took ...

Kanye West went on Twitter early Sunday morning (Dec. 13) to tell fans to stop asking about his new album, 'Swish.'

On the 1st December 2015 an incredible thing happened. A school block was opened in Malawi that will educate two hundred children.

While the move uptown had seemed a risky prospect, producers on Sunday announced recoupment of their initial investment, just eight months after opening.

Her most prized possession stands 15 inches tall with yellow, scaly skin and bright orange twig-like feet. It leans against a 2½-foot trophy for first place in geometry. …

Nike has teamed up with Italian sportswear brand Stone Island to cook up something fresh, innovative and most importantly functional.

YG may be Still Krazy after all these years -- which is another way of saying he's still at work on the follow-up to last year's superb My Krazy Life -- but the Compton rapper has found the time to recover from getting s...

This weekend, Taylor Swift's epically globe-trotting, guest-featuring 1989 World Tour finally came to a close -- or did it? Shortly after saying farewell in Melbourne, Australia, it was revealed that her Sydney stop on N...

A jazz center is coming to Motown. …

Adele's 25 continued its Billboard 200 dominance as the singer's new album breezed past the 5 million mark after just three weeks of release. 25 sold another 728,000 total copies to attain five-time platinum status and e...

Ten years after its release, we take a look back at Anthony Hamilton's underrated 2005 album, 'Ain't Nobody Worryin', and selected the five best songs from the collection.

The new streaming service Apple Music will show a film of Ms. Swift's concert in Australia, part of her world tour promoting her latest album.

This week’s episode of NPR quiz show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! features Neko Case as a guest panelist along with Luke Burbank and Roy Blount, Jr., as Pitchfork points out. In one segment, she calls the queen of Engl...

Hip-hop and R&B are the cousins who hang out often, with some excursions being better than others. This decade has seen the rise of several artists who blend both styles, occasionally on the same song. Toronto's Tory Lan...

Apple Music will stream the tour on Dec. 20.

Nicholas Robertson, a 28-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by a pair of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies as he crawled away from them Saturday (Dec. 12) morning. The officers claim that Robertson was armed, and...

On Friday night, a group of musicians including Chris Stapleton, Little Big Town, and Taj Mahal performed in Nashville in tribute to Greg Allman for the third episode of online concert series Skyville Live, The Tennessea...