These folk ballads were turned into rock classics with the 1960s rolled around, and they definitely deserved the breath of ...

Nigerian singer Omah Lay has stirred reactions online after sharing his view about the structure of the Afrobeats music scene ...

Omah Lay sparked debate online after claiming Afrobeats is mainly Yoruba and Lagos at his London listening party.

A dead goat that speaks like a human (Òkú ewúrẹ́ ń f'ọhùn bíi ènìyàn) is a Yoruba idiom describing the workings of the talking drum. A centuries-old instrument prevalent across West Africa, the ...

Old-time music is rooted in Appalachia, and an upcoming event series celebrates women's contributions to the tradition. The old-time genre developed mainly in the southern mountains and is commonly ...

Call it the day the music died. On December 31, 2025, MTV’s last music-only stations shut down forever . The last video played on MTV Music in the U.K. was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ebo Taylor, pictured here in 2011, started performing in his teens in the 1950s [Getty Images] Ebo Taylor, the Ghanaian guitarist, ...

Sometime in the mid-two-thousands, when people would still hand you cassette tapes or CDs at shows or in record stores or during hangouts in someone’s parents’ basement or smoke-filled apartment, I ...

For the first time since 2009, Norwegian black metal outfit Old Man’s Child has been busy working on a new full-length studio effort. It wasn’t enough that their sudden reunion and inclusion in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A melody of days gone by is making its way to Portland. The Portland Old Time Music Gathering is kicking off its 27th year, giving attendees a chance to play, dance and connect ...

Five years ago, an Apple Music Radio show tailored to my taste amplified music discovery for me. Discovering new episodes of that show, however, proved difficult. That changed three years later when ...