Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

The 10-track album is a culmination of Fiehrer’s 2025 Culture Works Artist Opportunity Grant, a grant given to individual artists in Montgomery County. “A Little Light” was produced by Gary King at ...

These amazing classic rock songs may have dropped way back in 1976, but I still find myself enjoying them in the 2020s.

Funkadelic's ‘Chocolate City,’ ‘Let's Take It to the Stage,’ and ‘Mothership Connection’ — a trio of albums that transformed ...

Pianist Barron Ryan plans a “Classic Meets Cool” program for the Warfield Concerts series 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hendrix Fine Arts ...

This weekend, join Emily Cooper and Zach Simms at Funk ‘n Waffles for Future Joy’s new funk-house album. Or visit the 443 ...

Dec. 14 & 16: The Eastern Shore Choral Society’s Fall Christmas Concert will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at First ...

Earlier this year at Coachella, funk forefather George Clinton gifted Leon Thomas a custom hat, lauding him as one of the ...

The Courant’s arts picks for Oct. 26 through Nov. 1 include “Misery” and comedy, Broadway stars, legendary singers and scary ...

From the Harlem Renaissance to modern improvisation, jazz has always been connected to wellness and self-expression.

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

D’Angelo, who died Tuesday at the age of just 51, was indisputably a musical genius, but he didn’t leave much behind: Just three studio albums and an under-the-radar live disc over the course of two ...