Country music makes a habit of being funny. Often, country songs are built around a central play on words or a joke you don’t get until the chorus. It’s a folksy convention of the genre that never ...

Nas is questioning what the culture values when its biggest innovators are celebrated late or not compensated at all. Plenty is happening in music that Nas doesn't seem interested in brushing off as ...

For the better part of the last decade, independent musicians have participated in one of the strangest rituals in modern music marketing. We make a record, spend months or years getting it right, ...