Arts and Entertainment

People who love soul music have to deal with the fact that artists stopped making it about the time that disco gobbled up R&B and funk in its Hustle-dancing wake.…

The French apparently have a weird idea of American music, at least if what they play in the local supermarché is any guide. This 1959 novelty single, for example, written…

First, a wonderful concert/spectacle from South Korea this Thursday.  'They play ancient Korean instruments that are strange and wonderful, the three singers have colorful costumes and intricately choreographed numbers, and…

Most American music fans know Welsh musician John Cale through his role as a founding member of the Velvet Underground. But his career in avant-garde music began years before he…

In France, Armistice Day is still a big deal -- a natural reaction, I suppose, considering most of the fighting in what was dubbed a "world" war was done on…

I'm not a Wes Anderson buff, so I don't know if the hubbub surrounding "The French Dispatch" accompanies all his films. Or if every time he gets a guy to…

So I'm talking the other night to a young millennial woman from London and during the conversation I tried to illustrate a point about someone going back on his stated…

It's been a long week. Time for a little John Prine. From "Fair and Square," the 2005 album he released after his bout with cancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NO2eI30Qhc

David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos," has at last cleared up any confusion about the series' controversial final scene, which aired more than 14 years ago. Though he once sort…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Glenn Donaldson works hard to craft the blend of guitar jangle and atmospheric dream pop that makes his band, the Reds, Pinks and Purples, sound…