I swear what I’m hearing must be a harmonica. The instrument has that perfect bluesy funk with a twist of southern twang. But then I glance up, and see it’s not a harmonica at all. Jia Wu is playing a ...

Music students from H.H. Dow High School are again selling premium ruby red grapefruit and California navel oranges to the ...

Billie Holiday recorded her iconic version of Strange Fruit on 20 April 1939. Eighty years on – in the first of our Songs that Made History series – Aida Amoako explores how a poem about lynching ...

Last year, North Carolina rapper Rapsody was searching for an introductory track for her new album, Eve, a concept LP about the history and power of black women. Her producer suggested a song she didn ...

For some reason, lemons are the go-to fruit for nutsack metaphors. (Seems big, doesn’t it?) It may have begun with Robert Johnson, who allegedly sold his soul in exchange for lyrics like “You can ...