Music Genres

Google adds subscription music service

34 days ago

For the moment, they are a small but fast-growing part of the music industry, contributing about 15 percent of total revenue in the U.S. last year, according to the Recording Industry Assn.

Singapore church on trial in pop star scandal

34 days ago

The prosecution's opening statement ridiculed the contention of church leaders that pop music was a tool of evangelism that would help spread God's message.

Instead of 'jazz,' trumpeter says it should be called Black American Music

50 days ago

"When Black American Music became 'jazz,' it separated itself from the American popular music idiom," Payton wrote in 2011 in one of his earlier online musings on the subject.

Commentary: Music, not tech, powers South by Southwest party

95 days ago

"But half a block away at Elysium, the dance music website Resident Advisor was showcasing the inner musical soul of the computer through textured synthetic rhythms and noise that culminated with...

David Bowie, Justin Timberlake are stars of pop music's spring

100 days ago

The spring 2013 pop music season promises grand returns, highly anticipated debuts and assured follow-ups.

Stand still, music fans, and let great bands come to you

103 days ago

DJs J2K (Josh Young) and Autobot (Curt Cameruci) make up Flosstradamus, something of a veteran act in the hip-hop and electronic dance music scenes.

Buku music fest returns to NOLA with bigger lineup

104 days ago

The two-day Buku Music + Art Project, a hip-hop and electronic dance music festival launched last year, is back for a second year, with about two dozen more acts and four stages instead of two.

'The Next Day' is David Bowie at his best

106 days ago

"The day before those concerts, Bowie sat down with Robert Hilburn, then the Los Angeles Times' pop music critic, at a Beverly Hills hotel.

The Riff Report: New music this week

107 days ago

Like others before, he booked Royal Studios, where Willie Mitchell and Al Green recorded the most beautiful pop music ever made by anyone at any time in history.

Bible lessons are on tap during Sunday services at Fort Worth bar

116 days ago

For two years, Christ Chapel Bible Church has held college services at the popular music venue on West Berry Street near TCU.

Nicholas Altobelli gives music a second chance

117 days ago

"Preston Jones is the Star-Telegram pop music critic, 817-390-7713Twitter: @prestonjones

Beyonce documentary to premiere Saturday on HBO

124 days ago

LOS ANGELES - Beyonce says that HBO's new documentary, "Beyonce: Life Is But a Dream," was the outgrowth of her sense that despite more than a dozen years in the public spotlight, first with the...

Matchbox Twenty tours behind 1st album of all-new material in a decade

124 days ago

In the 21st century world of pop music, that is the equivalent of an epoch's worth of shifting musical trends with a gaggle of brightly, if briefly, shining pop stars, and the increasing...

Commentary: Frank Ocean always does things his way

127 days ago

Any recognition for Ocean - he won Grammys for urban contemporary album and shared in the rap/ sung collaboration award for Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," which he co-wrote and...

Mumford & Sons' 'Babel' wins album of the year

128 days ago

"One of the best reviewed albums of the group's career, "El Camino" was praised as "a party record, a driving down the highway, 'I'm in love with rock and roll, and I'll be out all night' record"...