"You can learn everything on YouTube now," says DJ Dahi grinning like that's his secret. He's sitting at the main console of his recording studio in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. There are instruments scattered around the space, including a pack of harmonicas, which is what he happens ...

Sad song lyrics are made for lonely, late nights. Especially nights spent on social media platforms. Put the theory to the test. Check your Twitter timeline somewhere between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. — that period when most people are in, or headed to, bed and curling up to their ...

"Yaaaoow!" On a balmy August afternoon, Melo-X is pedaling around his East Flatbush, Brooklyn neighborhood on a black-and-white Schwinn Drifter, greeting every fourth person that his bicycle approaches, then passes. The son of Jamaican immigrants, he's well-known in this Caribbean-American community — so well-known that even a "What's up?" is ...

GoldLink knew exactly what his New York City audience was thinking as he first hit the stage at S.O.B.'s on June 10: "I know y'all are probably wondering, 'What the f*** is this guy wearing?'" Well, actually it was obvious: a Speedo flotation vest. The better question was, why was ...