Alyssia Birjalal The queen of gqom, Babes Wodumo, real name Bongekile Simelane, has made a smashing return after a five-year hiatus.Wodumo vanished from the music industry after she lost her ...

The album, which packs 16 tracks, features a star-studded guest list that includes Afrobeats hitmakers Seyi Vibez, King ...

The album, which packs 16 tracks, features a star-studded guest list that includes Afrobeats hitmakers Seyi Vibez, King Promise, and TI Blaze. Also on the album are fast-rising star FOLA, Ugandan ...

If you went to any “quinces” in the late ’90s and 2000s, you likely heard one song over and over. It’s so synonymous with quinceañera dances, some might even say it’s the ultimate quinceañera song. Is ...

This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Ratboys, Colter Wall, Samia, Juana Molina, Geese, Danny Brown, and more.

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 ...

No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the rise of TikTok-optimized tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that—a way of ...

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. Now almost 20 years after it ...

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 ...

Ella Langley is very close to her first solo No. 1 country radio hit, but "Weren't for the Wind" is making an impact elsewhere, as well. Is a surge in sales and streaming enough to push her to the ...

Lorde is 28, but both her music and aura can often feel timeless. Roaring into pop culture with her debut single “Royals” in 2013, she was much more composed than any other teenager breaking into the ...