Ellen Stekert is a folklorist, folk musician, and professor emerita at the University of Minnesota who recently released her ...

“Santa Baby” has been a longtime favorite around the holidays, ever since South Carolina native Eartha Kitt first recorded ...

Lee University’s Vanessa Muen Wei has been nominated for the 2026 International Classical Music Awards in the Premier ...

Best of 2024: Purple Rain turns 40 years old this year, so to commemorate this occasion, I’m taking a look at the first single from its mind-boggling soundtrack. It’s also the first of Prince’s string ...

A piano composition written by University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Professor Jonathan McNair is featured on a Grammy-nominated classical album. McNair, the Ruth S. Holmberg Professor of American ...

Dave Meder’s latest album isn’t the typical sort of music you’d hear in a church. But the University of North Texas music professor and jazz pianist doesn’t shy away from religious sounds or ideas in ...

Art and academia are joining forces in a peer-reviewed rap album that became a landmark doctoral dissertation for a University of Virginia professor. On Saturday, listeners will get the chance to hear ...

Daphne Leong’s got rhythm: When it comes to 20th- and 21st-century music, Professor of Music Theory Daphne Leong—along with her colleagues in the world of rhythm in music performance and ...

Music professor Javier José Mendoza found out he and his students had been nominated for a Grammy for their work on international recording artist Yandel’s Sinfónico (En Vivo) album while in his ...

Nick Zanca, the NYC-based artist who has put out music as Mister Lies and one-half of Quiet Friend over the years, has announced a new album, Hindsight, which will be out in August. It’s the second ...

MADISON, Wis. -– More than a billion people have listened to singer and rapper Bad Bunny’s newest album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” on Spotify -- but many may not know the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...