The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has announced the launch of a new award category for the 2025 ARIA Awards: the ARIA Best Music Festival Award, supported by Tixel. Created in ...

The Grammys are adding a special song for social change award and five new categories including songwriter of the year, giving the Recording Academy an avenue to honor music’s best composer.The ...

“Notes on faith” is theGrio’s inspirational, interdenominational series featuring Black thought leaders across faiths. Music has long been described as a “universal language” for its ability to ...

Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) led a group of more than 40 Democrats in introducing a resolution to recognize June as Black Music Month. The resolution declares that all American music and music around ...

If you’re familiar with Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”, you’d probably recognize that opening tune anywhere. But what if you learned an entirely new tune today? Would you be able to remember that ...

All hail Black Sabbath! That's what members of the British Parliament are saying as calls heat up for Queen Elizabeth to officially recognize the heavy metal godfathers for their "services to music." ...

This is an opinion column by arts and culture columnist Maxine L. Bryant. Ella Fitzgerald. Louis Armstrong. Nina Simone. Dizzy Gillespie. Ma Rainey. Prince. Tina Turner. Jimi Hendrix. Alicia Keys.