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W est Los Angeles’ Gjusta Bakery is bustling on a sunny Friday afternoon. Seven-foot-high stacks of flour bags lay near the entrance, soon to be turned into pastries. The main room is full of locals seeking an early-afternoon pick-me-up, but the backyard is quieter, with rustic tables and large plants …

My good people, we are finally in the midst of Detty December! For this month’s column, I’ve compiled a list of concerts, festivals, and fetes across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa where you can catch some of the hottests acts and hear some of the best music, like Everyday …

Midway through the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Dylan has an angry confrontation with his girlfriend, Sylvia Russo, about why he never makes any reference to his past. “People make up their past, Sylvie!” he roars. “They remember what they want. They forget the rest.” Dylan has been …

At 27, Atlanta-based rapper SahBabii has already been at the forefront of hip-hop’s younger generation for close to a decade. Early hits like 2017’s “Pull Up Wit ah Stick” and “Marsupial Superstars” established the rapper, born Saaheem Malik Valdery, as one of his era’s foremost innovators. In 2021, after a …

T here’s no fucking way I want to die on stage in my last song,” Sofía Valdés says. It’s not that she has an irrational fear of performing or anything like that; Valdés’ career as a musician is more fated than most. She’s the great-granddaughter of two legendary Latin music …

“I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date,” Taylor Swift said Sunday night in Vancouver. “My beloved Eras Tour.” Then she took her final bow and said goodnight — and meant it. Nobody really …

This may a difficult thing for anyone who came of age in the Sixties or Seventies to process, but there are many young people today who have either never heard of Bob Dylan or know virtually nothing about him. It’s easy to scoff at that if you’re a fan, but …

Early on in his new book, “Custodians of Wonder,” BBC Travel writer Eliot Stein tallies some recent effects of globalization, a process that seems to only speed up. Nine languages, he notes, are lost annually; half of the world’s current languages could go extinct within the next 100 years. Nearly …

Normani’s ending the year where she loves the most: on stage. On Thursday night, the R&B superstar performed songs from her debut album, Dopamine, for only the second time ever. To a crowd packed with influencers from Markell Washington to AdamTheFlop, Normani was all smiles as she delivered a choreography-packed …

Amy Allen just scored a Grammy nomination for Songwriter of the Year after co-writing every song on Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet — and she owes her entire career to the vampire baby in one of the Twilight movies. As a nursing student at Boston College, she discovered a major …