Detroit-raised singer and songwriter Victory Boyd has a voice that will immediately pull you out of the holiday music lull.

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Todd Snider, a Americana singer-songwriter whose troubadour flair made him a leading alt-country voice for three decades, has ...

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Todd Snider, a singer, songwriter, and raconteur who helped shape the alt-country and Americana music movements, died Friday. He was 59. Rolling Stone confirmed Snider’s death, with Snider’s ...

Released on this day in 1980, Yoko Ono recalls the making of Double Fantasy - what would tragically prove to be John Lennon's ...

The great jazz saxophonist teams with pianist Jason Moran and guitarist Marvin Sewell for an album of glowing, blues-inflected lyricism.

ON FRIDAY, DR. Arthur C. Bartner, the 85-year-old retired band director at USC, stood at the 50-yard line of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before the Trojans' game against Northwestern, looking ...