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Bessie Smith could wrap the blues around anything. She was the voice of freedom and of dislocation, heard by black audiences on the vaudeville circuit and white ones at Manhattan parties.

Some want escapist reads to distract themselves during these times, while others are turning to books that lean into the darkness and dread of the pandemic.

The end of the workweek always brings with it a lot of music, but for whatever reason today is particularly jam-packed, with releases from Carly Rae Jepsen, Lil Nas X, David Bowie and many others.

On Changes, his first studio album in five years — after a trying decade-plus of growing up in the digital spotlight — Justin Bieber sounds reinvigorated.

A song from the rapper's landmark album good kid, m.A.A.d city,produced by DJ Dahi,is built around an atmospheric sample. For one writer, it's a portal back to a night out in L.A. in 2015.

She can command a crowd like few others — and during her career, she's broadened the definition of soca, established herself as a brand and fueled Trinidad and Tobago's growing feminist movement.

Editor's note : John McCain died Saturday at the age of 81 from brain cancer. In the story that follows, originally published in May, WVXU politics...

Director Jason Reitman staged his annual live reading of a film script at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night. Aaron Paul, Jesse Eisenberg and Christina Hendricks stepped in.

Recent research and anecdotes suggest some people are testing negative on rapid tests even after they have symptoms, then later testing positive. Here's what researchers think is going on.

At the peak of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — a change akin to the shifting partisan leanings of the music's most loyal fans.