Every year, as the December Carnatic music season picks up momentum, a frequent topic of discussion is the place of sahitya in Carnatic music. Is sahitya central or secondary? Instrumentalists of high ...

Swing Lo Magellan pares the music back to its essential elements, seeking greater clarity, concision and directness. Credit: Courtesy photo Success didn’t come a moment too soon for Dirty Projectors.

NEW YORK — The melody is gentle, the music soothing, the words hard. “Slavery will remain, for a long time, the national characteristic of Brazil,” Caetano Veloso sings wistfully on the title track of ...

The melodies of these three songs might make you sing and dance, but that's because you have yet to listen to the words.

Jonathan Maberry, a fiercely prolific author of often frightening novels, hears voices rattling in his head. Specifically, one voice, that of actor Ray Porter, who narrates his audiobooks. ¶ A ...