At the age of 6, Dwele was already mastering the piano. At 10, he was using it to channel his emotions after his father was murdered. Given his circumstances, the Detroit nati...

Daft Punk helped lead the charge for the EDM (electronic dance music) genre. Being one with the machines is kind of the point of being an EDM DJ/producer. It’s a quest that ...

The Preakness Stakes, now in its 138th year, is a horse race run by thoroughbreds and held at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. If horses don’t fire your starting pistol...

Lucian Perkins was a summer intern at the Washington Post in 1979 when he snapped a set of black-and-white photos at punk shows around the District. He’d stay at the paper f...

Sheila E. combined glamour and drumsticks decades before Meg White. If the name Sheila E. is new to you, great! You’ve got a hot new favorite song to YouTube ahead of her sh...

There’s a little old lady partial to cardigans who has earned a place in rock history. Her stuff goes for hundreds of dollars on eBay. She retired two weeks ago, and Los Lob...

It’s hard to believe that just four years ago, Sweetgreen’s Sweetlife festival was basically a Dupont Circle block party. Now, the homegrown restaurant’s music-and-food ...

Bela Fleck makes what Mumford & Sons do to the banjo sound criminal. The 54-year-old doesn’t just play the instrument for old-timey flair; he’s always pushing it in ne...

Country crossover star Taylor Swift has carved out a niche penning maddeningly infectious songs about approximately a zillion relationships, most of them unrequited or over. G...

Indie guitar whiz Marnie Stern has watched her guitar collection dwindle down from several fine instruments to one beloved model. “I used to have a bunch of guitars but I’...

“How Soon is Now?” The Smiths cryptically wondered on their self-titled 1984 debut. I can name that tune in one shimmering, echo-pedaled guitar note. So when ex-Smiths gui...

Sonic Youth was born in 1981, three years after I was. We did not grow up together, however: While I was learning to walk and read, they were recording album after album of dr...

Los Angeles-based DJ Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, doesn’t rely on big drops or booming bass. Here’s why you should give this avant-garde beatsmith a listen. The Coltr...

My partner, Jaime, lost her dad on Holy Thursday. Her family lives in Los Angeles, and I’m writing this riding down the Pacific Coast Highway so we can put his ashes in the ...

Saturday is Record Store Day, that hallowed annual event when record stores say, “Hey! Remember us?” Vinylheads line up at the coolest stores (Jack White’s Third Man Rec...