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 ...

Music is interwoven into the fabric of figure skating with the athlete's choice of soundtrack doing tremendous work to color the complete picture. Getting the notes congruent with acrobatics on the ...

J. Cole addressed the Kendrick-Drake feud, and Bruce Springsteen whipped up an instant response to the chaos in Minneapolis. By Jon Pareles When federal agents killed anti-ICE protesters in ...

This post was updated Jan. 25 at 8:21 p.m. Ari Lennox is leaving no vacancy for R&B music in 2026. The neo soul songstress released her third album, “Vacancy,” on Friday – one of the first major R&B ...

Today (January 16), the late, beautiful singer Aaliyah Haughton would have turned 47. Although “Baby Girl’s” untimely death was during the peak of her music and acting career, the songstress left an ...

What’s the secret to a happy Monday (and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday etc)? Bez knows. The freaky dancer, whose manic moves and maracas have accompanied Happy Mondays’ music since 1980, reckons the ...

Learning to play an instrument requires practicing for thousands of hours and can cost tens of thousands of dollars. While practice still makes perfect, musicians at UpBeat NYC do not have to spend a ...

When you go to your next concert or listen to your favorite music on an app, you might first consider the lighting around you. Music is widely known for its ability to arouse, change moods or trigger ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

The 1972 film “The Harder They Come” and its accompanying soundtrack brought the genre out of Jamaica and helped pave the way for future stars. By Jonathan Abrams Much of the world had never seen or ...

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. If I were writing a song about Travis Kelce, a man I’ve never met, I would ...