I went to 38 shows in 2025, and only reviewed some of them for KQED. (After 30 years of writing about music, it’s a form of ...

In these pages, we witness a year of Black artistry that moved hearts, shook stages and reshaped the contours of possibility.

Legendary blues artist Buddy Guy, winner of Variety's Hitmakers Living Legend / Iconic Collaboration in Film Award, talks ...

Three-time Oscar winner Stephen Schwartz penned two new songs for part 2 of “Wicked”: “No Place Like Home,” sung by Cynthia ...

Growing up in Brooklyn, Caton had acted in school productions and church plays with his sister, but imagined more seriously ...

When I was about 10, he started taking the family to a Berkeley revival house that played the great movies of my parents’ youth. I loved those nights; even though many of the movies confused me, I ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

These are the best songs of 2025, with great tracks from Clipse, FKA twigs, Geese, Sabrina Carpenter, Turnstile, Bon Iver, and many others.