CULTURE

Gossip Dances Back Into Action With ‘Real Power’ LP After a 12-Year Pause

The trio fronted by Beth Ditto wasn’t sure it would return after scattering in different directions. But music united them for a new LP, “Real Power.”The trio fronted by Beth Ditto wasn’t sure it would return after scattering in different directions. But music united them for a new LP, “Real Power.” Read More

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Toby Keith Will Be Inducted Into the Country Hall of Fame This Year

The organization behind the honors avoids electing artists in the year of their death, but the singer died in February just after this year’s vote closed. ​The organization behind the honors avoids electing artists in the year of their death, but the singer died in February just after this year’s vote closed. Read More

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Gylan Kain, a Founder of the Last Poets and a Progenitor of Rap, Dies at 81

He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, laying a foundation for what was to come. ​He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, laying a foundation for what was to come. Read More

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