Two music traditions blend when jazz artists play backup for rap and hip-hop stars.

When fans attend a performance by the Chicago rap stars Common or Kanye West (or, for that matter, the hip-hop princess BeyoncA(C) or the neo-soul crooner Maxwell), they expect certain things: powerful choreography, glitzy peripherals like lights and props and the headliner on video screens in gigantic detail...

Anti-government protesters in Iran are using music to continue their dissent against the hardline regime.

He is a liturgical traditionalist who is known to favour the Latin mass with all its ancient trimmings. But when it comes to finding a song that will appeal to young worshippers, the Pope has opted for rap.

A love of glow sticks isn't the only thing that area jam-band fans and electronica music fans have common. Now they've got the North Coast Music Festival. The inaugural NCMF kicked off on Friday and ended Sunday in the West Loop's Union Park, the same location where the annual Pitchfork Music Festival has been held for several years. A lineup of 63 acts was slated to play on four stages. The two ...