“You know what season it is,” Ye boasts on Bully track “King.” Yeah, Yeezy season has returned, but it feels different this time around for the mercurial artist born Kanye West. A typical Kanye album ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

Farmer Eshetu Wedajo received dairy cows as a compensation for being relocated. The Modjo Dry Port, which carries over 90% of Ethiopia’s imports and exports, is expanding to increase its capacity ...

The Modjo–Hawassa Expressway is a 202 km high-standard toll road connecting southern Ethiopia to national and regional trade networks, with support from the World Bank and other partners. The project ...

Taylor Swift created her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, as she was touring her discography around the world and falling in love with her now-fiancé, Travis Kelce — all under an incredibly ...

Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl." Swift put out the word on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday, her site ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

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 rapper’s sixth studio album follows the success of a pair of tracks this year that were sparked by a war of words with Drake. By Ben Sisario Kendrick Lamar, the rapper laureate and one of the ...

I think about Tom Petty a lot. But in October, I think about him a little bit more. This month marks two important Tom Petty milestones— it’s the seventh anniversary of his death (Oct. 2), and the ...

Linkin Park have announced their new album, From Zero, which comes out Nov. 15. They've performed their first show with new singer Emily Armstrong (Dead Sara), playing a 16-song set. The band debuted ...

Steve Perry has appeared on 12 original studio albums, both as a solo artist and with Journey. At first, they arrived with clock-like regularity. He released seven LPs over the seven years between ...