A noble tradition of American dissent has been hijacked by right-wing trolls—including the famous hip-hop artist.

Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize reveals the way hip-hop has scrambled the distinction between music and literature.

Looking back at 65 years of the essential arbiter of pop music, whose famed print edition is soon to close down.

The man who defined the sound of America has died at age 66.

Fans of the band Insane Clown Posse marched Saturday in the nation's capital to protest discrimination by law enforcement, while espousing a progressive commitment to equality.

Adam Bradley's new book makes a rare, convincing argument for the close reading of pop music.

The political reporter talks to TNR about rock music's most misunderstood genre.

Just in time for summer, her new solo album "Fake Sugar" is an '80s power-disco confection.

The death of Chris Cornell and the 25th anniversary of the movie "Singles" bring a musical era into focus.

The pop-punk duo PWR BTTM presented themselves as everything their young fans needed. Like a lot of celebrity promises, it was too good to be true.

“If you had to give rock n’ roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry,” John Lennon famously said.

A commemorative compilation pays a very special tribute to a legendary synthesizer—proof that everybody still needs a 303.

The visionary funk musician William Onyeabor has died at 70

The genre hasn’t been this irrelevant in decades, which was only underscored by a slew of memoirs by aging rock stars.