For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what are the best new/breakthrough artists of 2021?

Performing artist Nakara Forjé has recently published a ‘7 Day Grief Journal for Hip Hop Lovers.’ She tells Sean McPherson about how she hopes to help people work through their grief, whatever that might mean to them.

Boldly going where few gay men of color have been allowed to go before, Lil Nas X won the year by joyfully violating cultural taboos and exploiting media far more than it was able to exploit him.

Sani and Sean, co-hosts of The Message, share their show’s top songs of 2021.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what are the best covers of 2021?

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what are the best local songs of 2021?

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear for Festivus?

Robert K. Elder’s new book tells you everything you ever could possibly have wanted to know about Elvis Presley’s Christmas recordings, holiday traditions, and even the cards that ritually went out signed ‘Elvis and the Colonel.’

Great new discoveries from DNM, Mike Dreams, Cassette, and more

In this film that imagines a Christmas with the Royal Family in the 1980s, Kristen Stewart delivers a fascinating portrait of Princess Diana while Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood provides a haunting soundtrack.