Sniggers were stifled when he accompanied his wife's yoga lecture plucking serenely on the sitar and his tantric sex sessions have become legendary. Now Sting has immersed himself in an even more ...

Lute’s big league start happened back in 2017 with his debut album’s release on Dreamville. West 1996 Pt. 2, which is the sequel to his 2012 mixtape, arrived two years after Lute joined the J.

When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...

Call it lute ’n’ roll: Jimi Hendrix songs played on a 12-string, 16th-century acoustic instrument? David Rogers can do it. However, he’ll stick with the Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, the Beatles and ...

As one of the premier record labels, J. Cole‘s Dreamville Records is both gifted and cursed with one of the deepest rosters in rap. On one hand, because there are so many artists signed to the label — ...

The NBA’s decision to have 64-year-old British singer-songwriter Sting perform at halftime of the All-Star Game in Toronto was a curious one. Pairing the former Police frontman with the pageantry of ...

A "remarkable" collection of lute manuscripts dating back to the 16th Century has been put online by the University of Cambridge. The 650 pieces include handwritten scores by John Dowland, Francis ...

Lute has kept a relatively low profile since his signing with Dreamville in late 2015, but now the Charlotte, North Carolina rapper is all systems go. On Thursday, he announced the release date for ...

Jozef van Wissem would like to open our ears to the gorgeous sonorities of the lute. But he feels his instrument has what he calls "a bad image: You stand under a balcony and serenade a lady, and then ...