Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

Bentley University officials described Wiley Davi, who was last seen on Nov. 15, as "a longtime and respected professor" Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife/Facebook A college professor ...

The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the “Make America Great Again” slogan as an example of white supremacy. By ...

Rob Reginio began listening to Bob Dylan’s music when he was young and in the company of his mother, who enjoyed filtering her Dylan through Joan Baez’s graceful covers. But just before he started ...

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in November. If you’re ...

A dirty little secret in higher education is that professors are not trained in how to teach. There are virtually no industries that hire a primary workforce without clear, and often degree-based, ...

EAU CLAIRE — UW-Eau Claire professor Jon Loomis may be familiar to those in the Chippewa Valley for teaching English, but soon that same professor will be releasing his first album. “I taught creative ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

Authorities believe the man accused of killing a retired Auburn University professor ambushed her and repeatedly hit her with a sharp object while she walked her dog Saturday. Police in Auburn, ...

The 59-year-old was found dead in a wooded area of the park this weekend. A man is in custody for allegedly killing a retired Auburn University professor, whose body was discovered in an Alabama dog ...

Nina Kraus, 72, was reported missing after going on a walk, police said. A Northwestern University professor who was reported missing after leaving home to go on a walk was found and transported to a ...