30 years ago today (4/2/96), The Beastie Boys flipped the script with The In Sound from Way Out!, a vibey, fully instrumental compilation that highlighted just how deep their musical chops ran beyond ...

For many rappers, the prospect of launching into a random instrumental for a free-wheeling rap session is a terrifying one. Suffice it to say, Nick Grant never has and never will be one of those ...

Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. Several years ago, he connected with DJ Socalled, ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...