Hip-hop upends the Pulitzer Prize and a pair of musicians take to the stage in dresses made out of speakers. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s rocking culture news (and essential cumbia remixes): ESSENTIAL IMAGE The 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize...

Upsetting the modernist status quo in 1968 were Terry Riley's transformative "In C," Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia" with a movement memorializing Martin Luther King Jr., Stockhausen's mystical tune-in, turn-on "Stimmung" and Hans Werner Henze's "The Raft of the Medusa," dedicated to ..

Alternative rapper Aminé is described as "stylistically left of center" in his Apple Music bio, news the 24-year-old greets with a laugh. "That needs to change soon," he said still smirking. "I don't know who made that to be honest. It's a very funny bio; I love it. It makes me look good,..

People were in shock Friday as news spread about the death of Swedish-born producer and DJ Avicii at 28. Friends and fans alike struggled to come to terms with the loss of the EDM phenom, who walked away from touring in 2016 but never turned his back on the music, releasing an EP just last year. ....

What goes with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony? We must be up to Example No. 2743 by now. Everybody’s a got a different idea, and some, such as Gustavo Dudamel, more than one. Last summer, with our contentious country in a stir, Dudamel asked the beloved sportscaster Vin Scully to recite Copland’s “Linc..