Janelle Monáe is interested in what it means to represent minority groups in art and music. In season 2 of the Amazon series Homecoming, she stars as a military veteran who wakes up in a rowboat — ...

Feelings of persecution have long driven Swift’s most powerful songwriting. But even as fans and critics dinged her latest album, her numbers continue to explode.

Before her tragic death in a Minneapolis house fire earlier this month, singer-songwriter Jill Sobule had completed work on a Drama Desk-nominated “autobiographical musical memoir” called “F*ck 7 th ...