“With Southside, I wanted to celebrate where I’m from while showing where the Gqom sound is going,” says DJ Lag. “It’s for the people who’ve been with me from the start, and for everyone discovering ...

Gqom star DJ Boonu, real name Andile Chili, is riding high after purchasing a new top-of-the-range Ford Ranger. The Durban-born DJ is also celebrating his birthday. Speaking to TshisaLIVE, DJ Boonu ...

Music can be a powerful way for political candidates to connect with voters and convey a message. Here are the songs the New York City mayoral candidates chose. By Anna Kodé For decades, politicians ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

Here are the 101 rock and metal songs with over one billion streams on Spotify. Over 925 songs representing Spotify's BILLIONS CLUB playlist, which regularly adds the latest songs that have crossed ...

In this series of three videos American Indian women sing the history of a landscape including its present past and future where a conflict displacement or massacre of their tribe took place The songs ...

Get your body moving—and scrubbing!—with these good songs for cleaning It’s hard to believe that “Work Bitch” is a full decade old this year, since its message seems as timeless as ever. If you want ...

The top country songs of 2024 prove that country music — especially traditional country music — is in very good hands. A full 25 percent of the Top 40 songs from this year are by artists who've never ...

A playlist of 103 songs from our three critics’ lists to experience however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz Here at The Amplifier, we like to keep our playlists relatively brief, like bite-sized musical ...

A side effect of the way we listen to music in the streaming era is that it's harder than ever for new stars to break through. Or it was until 2024, anyway. This year, it felt like a page turned, the ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...