Valentine Guinness has suffered with bouts of chronic dizziness and motion-sickness since childhood. But around a decade ago, the 66-year-old writer and musician’s spells ramped up in severity, with ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

Was it a good year for hip-hop? If you look at the Billboard charts—where very few rap songs released this year cracked the top 40—the answer would seem to be no. But if you focus on albums, the story ...

Taylor Swift released an album so bad we won’t even talk about it. FKA twigs fucked around with EUSEXUA and found out… it got even better? Rosalía let her hair down from the Tower of Babel. Addison ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Nov. 19 (UPI) --Goo Goo Dolls performed a Tiny Desk concert for NPR Music, playing a four-song set that included two hits from the band's 1998 quintuple-platinum album, Dizzy Up the Girl. NPR welcomed ...

The man’s symptoms were intermittent, and he lived with them for years. Then he got scared enough to seek help. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. The 67-year-old man braced himself against the passenger seat as ...

Australian guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel is releasing his latest album, “Living in the Light,” on Oct. 10. Emmanuel called it his most “adventurous record yet,” blending acoustic, pop, jazz, ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

The Mountain Goats have announced a new album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, that will be out November 7 via their own Cadmean Dawn Records. It’s described as a “full-on musical” and ...

Let us not beat around the bush or obfuscate the obvious: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club is as sweet a listen anyone can wish for or expect as simpatico luminaries—pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, ...