Variety's music writers pick 2025's best albums, including Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Rosalía, Bad Bunny, Clipse, Brandi Carlile, ...

KC and the Sunshine Band, racism, instrumental songs, forgettable melodrama, good to great FM radio fodder, and a Bowie ...

Alt-folk artist Louis Alberry is known for his atmospheric instrumental guitar compositions as well as fronting psych acts Bigbyrd and the Good Beast. Now he’s released a clutch of songs that delve ...

His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.

Erykah Badu didn’t play “Tyrone” at her 2018 show at San Francisco’s Warfield, but she did spoil the punchline. One of the ...

Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of ...

Steve Cropper, the Booker T. and the M.G.'s guitarist and co-writer of "Green Onions" and "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay," ...

Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.

Songs by Mark Mothersbaugh, Danny Elfman, Iggy Pop, Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump & more soundtrack these children's animated series.

One of the more colorful and fun people in gaming is Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, who has made a career of composing great game music ...

A long lost demo of late Death mastermind Chuck Schuldiner covering Madonna's 1998 single Frozen has been unearthed and posted on the band's Instagram page. Schuldiner’s nephew Chris Steele posted a ...