Here are five shows worth catching at the 2026 Noise Pop Festival, which runs Feb. 19-March 1 at a plethora of venues mostly located in San Francisco. The picks are listed in chronologically order, ...

The Stones are still playing. Herbie Hancock, 85, is teaching at the Herbie Hancock institute at UCLA. We live in a golden age of masters still on stage. This is our chance to really listen.

Mark Black History Month, catch new museum exhibits and celebrate Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras and Lunar New Year this month ...

Ra-Ra-Ra Underground Resistance and Saul Williams have teamed up on two tracks on an album of reimaginings of Sun Ra Arkestra tracks curated by Ricardo Villalobos. When There Is No Sun s ...

Christine Turner’s documentary about the Afro-Futurist band who lived n Germantown for decades screened at the Black Star ...

Long a collectors’ holy grail, this searching, atmospheric soundtrack recorded for Chicago’s Adler Planetarium in 1993 mixes spiritual jazz with avant-garde pan-Africanism.

PBS will soon highlight a pioneering musician whose band is still based in a Germantown rowhome. Sun Ra, the late bandleader ...

The competition was fierce at music's biggest night. See the full list of artists who won big at the Grammy Awards.

Among Philly area nominees, Sabrina Carpenter leads with six noms. Christina McBride and Yannick Nézet-Séguin are also up for multiple awards.

The impossible is normally treated like a locked door — something to knock against, curse under your breath, and then walk away from once the frustration sets in. As a Black American, impossibility is ...

To suggest that Sonny Blount’s Fletcher Henderson Appreciation Society is currently preoccupied with the big band era as parody, pastiche or nostalgia is to imply contrivance, an effect deliberately ...

Republic Day Visual That Dominated Kartavya Path: PM Modi’s Striking Multi-Coloured Safa Republic Day 2026 delivered many powerful moments, but one image stood out early—Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...