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Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Israel Daramola, Dave McKenna, Ray Ratto, David Roth, and Lauren Theisen discuss Led ...

On Wednesday, March 19, at Hawk’s Well Theatre Fishamble Returns with the Multi-Award-Winning Heaven by Eugene O’Brien. Following its hugely successful Off-Broadway, Edinburgh, and Off-West End runs, ...

As winter turns to spring, everything's feeling a little bit brighter. Whether you're tackling a 5k or preparing to run your first marathon, get motivated with Harry! He's got the perfect playlist of ...

Peter Gabriel (1986): After four albums of demanding art-rock, Gabriel switched gears a bit on his fifth solo LP (and the ...

It’s impossible to tell the story of alternative rock without including the contributions of the Breeders co-founder and ex-Pixies bassist Kim Deal. Over the years, her admirers have included Kurt ...

You might well own a good amount of the material on here, but the Soul 66 three-CD box set is still a lovely thing to have. It's a Cherry Red box, which in itself is ...

Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong is a name most jazz aficionados recognize, having read it in the annals and footnotes of jazz history, but often mistakenly gloss over it in passing as a detail in the ...

As part of their love for music, both Jonathan and Olivia are record, CD, and cassette collectors, and Jonathan is also in a ...

The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song “Closing Time” over a social media post that ...

The latest additions to the anthology are Vol. 48: Rockabilly & Rock n Roll from the Vaults of Starday Records and Vol. 49: ...