Because there's the rub: Motorhead united the tribes, inspired extreme metal (there's a reason we chose Overkill as their ...

MTV - with a little help from NASA- helped turn music in all its forms into a visual medium after launching as an innovative ...

Oscars Best Original Song Commentary (Updated Dec. 11, 2025): With 15 songs angling for the shortlist, there’s reserved seating for the animated frontrunner — “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” — and ...

Dr. Robert Muggah is affiliated with the Igarapé Institute and SecDev. Brazil’s “criminal economy” does not appear on any national balance sheet. Yet the cost of violence, contraband, tax evasion and ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Kanye West’s São Paulo concert was canceled after Brazilian officials refused a permit, citing the rapper’s Nazi promotion. Kanye West faced another professional setback when São Paulo officials ...

The year 1986 saw a lot of great country music, both by established artists and relative newcomers. In 1986, some of the best country songs were released, including these four, which every music fan ...

Pedro Fidelman is a researcher in a project funded by Brazil's National Scientific and Technological Development Council (CNPq). World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city ...

The first new Wicked: For Good song previewed is an Elphaba number, called “No Place Like Home.” This is, of course, a direct callback to Judy Garland and the original 1939 Wizard of Oz. You can check ...

One of the most anticipated films of the year (maybe the decade?) has to be Wicked: For Good. The first film only adapted the Broadway musical’s first act, ending with Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) ...

AUTAZES, Brazil—In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, workers are preparing to dig a vertical shaft as wide as a subway tunnel half a mile down into the ground. It isn’t gold or oil hidden here in a ...