For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

There was a lot of great new music in 2025 by New Orleans artists. Here are five favorites to keep on repeat well past 2025, ...

The overall sound is huge and the energy exuberant, with Petunia's band, at the time of the recording, coming off a years-long residency at the WISE Lounge, singing songs that had been workshopped and ...

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Memphis, Tennessee stands as a musical mecca where legends were born, where blues wail from doorways after dark, and where the soundtrack of American history plays on repeat through streets steeped in ...

Fatherhood has had an overwhelmingly positive on bluegrass star Billy Strings' touring career since welcoming son River in September 2024.

Billy Strings is getting real about how having a son has changed the way he views music. Last year, Billy Strings and his wife welcomed a baby boy into the world. After a long labor, Strings was happy ...

A holly jolly bluegrass Christmas. Billy Strings has wrapped up his tours for the year, rounding out his 2025 winter tour with some stellar shows in Texas. After laying it down in Austin's Moody Arena ...

In newly shared footage, Billy Strings gets his hands on Ol' Hoss, an acoustic guitar owned and played by bluegrass legend Doc Watson.

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D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.