“‘Help Me, Rhonda’ is my 16-month-old’s favorite song. A passing memory from our childhoods but it came to mind when my ...

White Bird presents four companies including Urban Bush Women while Oregon Ballet Theatre revives "Sleeping Beauty" and World ...

There are good one-hit wonders, and then there are timeless ones. These are three timeless one-hit wonders from the 1960s that make us dance.

Part 2 of our annual countdown of the top 50 local songs of 2025, featuring a range of artists from music legends to high ...

Longtime scene stalwart Liz Draper released her debut solo LP, a four song suite of ambient-leaning, Arthur Russel ...

Authorities in China's Xinjiang region are threatening to detain residents over downloading, listening to and sharing ...

The end of the year, we are conditioned to believe, is a time of reflection. We take stock of milestones and accomplishments ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR STREAMED DANCE SONGS (AUDIO AND VIDEO) ON LEADING DIGITAL MUSIC SERVICES, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE. click to see more EJAE, M.Sonnenblick, D.Y ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

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 ...