Usher and H.E.R. perform during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, 2024. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Usher headlined the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, but he didn’t…

Alicia Keys performs at Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre in Charlotte, North Carolina on Aug. 2, 2022. Photos: Theo Wargo/Getty Images. SAN FRANCISCO — Alicia Keys brought her Alicia+Keys 2022 World Tour to Chase Center Saturday, supporting not one but two albums she released during the pandemic. The staging was meant…

Though she may not be the biggest artist on Billboard’s charts in 2021, there’s no denying that at 40, Alicia Keys is widely regarded as one of the 21st century’s most successful pop acts and a musical prodigy. With her eighth album, Keys—following just a year after part one…

A bold and bittersweet closing chapter for one of the greatest rappers of all time, the long-awaited album from DMX, Exodus, comes a little over a month and a half after his death. His first release in nine years (following 2012’s Undisputed) and his first on Def Jam since Grand Champ, Exodus is…

Here comes—let’s be realistic here—the slightly less overcast sun, with the Beatles. You’re reading this in 2021. That means you made it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no impression that 2021 will immediately be all sunshine and rainbows. We’re still in the midst of a plague that should…