Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. What makes an industry plant? Apparently this is the music internet’s greatest concern. The train of ...

Melbourne's "festival of new art, music, and performance", Rising, has returned for its third year with an extensive international program.

Vivid LIVE returns to Sydney in late May 2025, with a line-up headed up by an exclusive performance from Anohni & The Johnsons.

This year’s 10th Annual Alaska Black Business Expo was the largest gathering of Black-owned businesses and supporters in the ...

Dive into sonic installations at Melbourne City Baths, play mini golf at Flinders Street Station and see legendary rappers ...

Melbourne's flagship winter arts festival returns this June with two weeks of live music, performance, theatre and dance.

This year's lineup includes 65 events — a field of red beams that respond to movement and Suki Waterhouse's first-ever Aussie ...

Igmar Thomas’ ensemble bridges eras of Black American music with the soul-stirring project, ‘Like A Tree It Grows.’ ...

From Mary J. Blige's "My Life" to Naughty by Nature's "Sunshine," here are 21 hip-hop and R&B songs that have sampled the 1976 Roy Ayers Ubiquity classic.

In 2017, Ayers did a set at Tyler's Camp Flog Gnaw. In 2007, he collaborated with Talib Kweli and Ye on "In The Mood," where he played vibraphone over bouncy drums and vocal chops crafted by Ye. He ...

The spring concert calendar is already filling up with Indian superstars, Latin American rappers, Ballet B.C. — and even family events and critical books to digest ...

With the loss of multi-talented instrumentalist Roy Ayers, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the hip-hop world is honoring one of its greatest inspirations and sample sources. Hip-hop ...