These tracks didn't just top the charts '€” they changed music forever. Join us as we count down our picks for the most ...

In the years since the apex of Sly & The Family Stone, his records have been sampled over 800 times, with everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Kendrick Lamar wielding fragments of his imagination.

Many of the words that came to be in the 1970s have become staples in today's vocabulary while others have simply faded out ...

On March 28, 1981, Blondie kicked off a two-week run at No. 1 with a song that combined new wave, punk, and hip-hop.

Both Harry and Blondie's guitarist, Chris Stein, were early fans of rap. They befriended hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy, who ...

Before Cypress Hill, before Vico C, before Bad Bunny, before reggaeton existed — there was Perucho Conde, a middle-aged comedian from Caracas with a parrot’s mouth and a protest in his heart.

"Rapture" became Blondie's fourth and final Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit in 1981. The song was the first No. 1 hit to feature ...

Back in the groove with its 2025 ‘Renascence’ album, Cymande plays Atlanta this week. The U.K. band founded in the '70s still ...

Standing tall in the world of hip-hop, 'Godfather of Soul' James Brown's first ever sample came from the most unlikely band.

He’ll be at the Tara Theatre this week for a book discussion and a screening of the 1982 film Wild Style. A 2009 article in The New York Times proclaimed Atlanta as “hip-hop’s center of gravity.” A ...

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died last year after suffering an abnormal heartbeat and had multiple drugs in his system at the time, according to a toxicology report that ruled the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Daniel Naroditsky, an influential American chess grandmaster who was found dead at his North Carolina home in October at age 29, had multiple drugs in his system at the time and ...