There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

Many years ago, Astros radio play-by-play broadcaster Robert Ford penned an essay about his father, Robert “Rocky” Ford Jr., ...

Author and music journalist Ben Camp –aka Novocaine132 – a longtime resident of Burien’s Chelsea Park neighborhood, has ...

As with hip-hop, by the the mid-1980s house music had become a cultural force, spreading from Chicago to Detroit, to New York and, eventually, to the U.K.’s rave scene. Its emphasis on ...

Roxanne Shanté, who made history as the first solo female MC in hip hop in the 1980s, made history again last week as the ...

Our list of the best 80s music is a collection of songs from rock, hip-hop, electronic ... iterations of popular music created in the 1980s. Music in the 80s was moving in a number of loosely ...

Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...

From this shared origin of technological experimentation, cultural resilience and creative ingenuity, hip-hop and house music grew into distinct yet globally influential movements. By the early 1980s, ...

When it comes to making love songs, arguably no other genre has mastered that craft to the degree of R&B. Its smooth melodic ...