James Ingram, a hitmaking voice of ’80s R&B, is dead at 66
In romantic duets with other stars and as a solo act, he sang his way onto the music charts, won Grammys and performed on movie...
Review: New Edition back on center stage in BET miniseries
“The New Edition Story,” a vibrant, fiercely committed three-night miniseries, begins airing Tuesday, Jan. 24.
Netflix’s ‘The Get Down’: Superheroes, hip-hop fuse in coming-of-age drama
Show co-creator and executive producer Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge,” “The Great Gatsby”) reportedly spent $120 million on this production. The first six episodes of the...
‘Rap Tees’ catalogs 20 years of hip-hop merchandising | Book review
The book begins as a document of the hip-hop industry’s efforts to branch out beyond music, and by the end shifts to gray market entrepreneurs,...
Comic Pete Davidson nuzzles up to the prickly joke
The “SNL” cast member, whose firefighter father was killed on 9/11, has made shoulder-shrugging, post-trauma, post-trigger-warning comedy his calling card.
Luke Bryan’s ‘Kill the Lights’ kills the fun, too | Review
The country star announced this spring that his traditional March concert/party blowout in Florida would be his last, as it was time to grow up....
Kacey Musgraves and other ‘tomatoes’ give country its bite
“The tomatoes of our salad are the females,” proclaimed a country-music analyst. The reference to garnish angered a lot of female country singers. The remark...
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Butterfly’: paying the price of success | New recordings
Lamar’s latest album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” reflects an artist at ease speaking his mind about big topics: social politics, race, personal responsibility and the...