In spite of everything, here are 18 small to midsize music venues that have opened in recent years in Southern California.

Beyond samba, soca, and son, many other Latin traditions continue to inform modern sound design. Colombian cumbia is ...

Savita Singh did not only win the Chutney Soca Monarch (CSM) title this year. She changed the shape of it. In 31 years of the competition, no woman had ever taken the title. Last Sunday night at ...

Every year, social media pages are splashed with colorful images of feathers, powder and bacchanal–which could only mean one thing: Carnival has arrived. I’ve traveled to over eight Caribbean ...

Mr. Shinners is a pianist and harpsichordist and hosts the podcast “W.T.F. Bach.” Classical music has been in a crisis for decades. New generations don’t seem to care about it. The institutions that ...

When Drupatee Ramgoonai stepped into the national spotlight in the mid-1980s, there was no language for what she was doing. Hindi lyrics were unheard of in soca music. East Indian women did not ...

If you woke up today eagerly looking for the weekly refresh of your “Favorites Mix” in Apple Music, you were probably disappointed when you couldn’t find it. However, it turns out Apple is just ...

Moises Mendez II is an associate editor at Out Magazine based in Brooklyn, New York. He covers internet culture and entertainment, including television, movies, music, and more. Before joining Out, he ...

Soca music royalty Bunji Garland and Faye Ann Lyons will turn the Brooklyn Museum into a dance hall ahead of the West Indian American parade. Bear attack in Florida caught on doorbell camera, watch ...

Soca icon Machel Montano says it may take some time for soca music to become as widespread as reggae and dancehall, but he hopes to help lead the way. He also discusses his upcoming "Planet Brooklyn" ...

Every good party has three things: food, drinks and music. But Food, Wine and Fête isn’t just another party, it’s a cultural celebration that’s cooking up something special in SoFlo! Soca ’bout a fun ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On Friday’s Memphis Music ...