New jazz music seems to be getting more vital by the day, and these 11 albums from 2025 prove it.

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The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The Los Angeles Chargers need some help at running back in the wake of Najee Harris’ season-ending injury. Those Chargers will lean more on Hassan Haskins as the backup to first-rounder Omarion ...