Cindy Howes talks with old-time player Jake Blount in this episode of the Basic Folk podcast. They discuss his work of elevating and revealing Black people’s massive contributions in traditional folk ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

Beyoncé's surprise new country album has kicked open the saloon doors to a new audience. While this may not be Beyoncé's first rodeo when it comes to country music, people are now exploring the genre ...

I'm Tyler Macready. I am a Movies/TV Feature Writer for Collider. In the golden age of 3D platforming, no other titles captured the imaginations of players quite like Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie and its ...

Although Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge is noteworthy for being the first of Rare's games in more than a decade to be published by a company other than Rare or Nintendo, there isn't much else that ...