In honor of Black History Month, The Current is exploring the origins of Black music in America, what came after, and how it ...

The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

If you're wondering why the intro theme in The White Lotus Season 3 has changed so drastically, the composer explains it all.

One of the most influential noise/blues-punk figures to make a mark on the New York scene in the '80s and '90s, charismatic ...