Sometimes, one-hit wonders will feature some surprisingly deep lyrics that you may have missed in the first few listens.

Yuridia Francisca Gaxiola Flores, known as Yuridia, came in second in the fourth season of the reality show “La Academia,” ...

Somewhere in the middle sits another new score by Elena Kats-Chernin, her commissioned violin concerto Fantasie im Wintergarten, with its surreal touches of German silent movies and Weimar darkness.

Gone are the days of discovering new music through television, and that’s a shame. Upon a recent watch of The O.C.—which premiered in 2003—and hearing the soundtrack, I came to a realization. This ...

Australian singer Gotye has become an international sensation with his haunting song, "Someone that I Used to Know." He makes his KCRW debut with a live set of ...

Valentine’s Day tends to hit hard not only for people in the first flush of love, but also those who’ve recently suffered a ...

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

If we’ve learned anything over the years, even the shoddiest low-budget action flick can become one of the most popular movies on Netflix. Last week it was American Renegades, and this week it ...

HERE'S THE THING about movies: they are awesome. Broadly. The good ones are rewarding, yes, but the wild thing is that sometimes melting into a seat and watching a horrible one can be a great time ...

the movies were still a mixed bag, with the best inspiring epiphanies and the worst offering a choice between earnestness, urgency, or self-conscious quirkiness; people still excitedly shared thei ...