From breakout Brooklyn band Geese to Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the ...

Machel Montano is ready to make us dance with new music. On Wednesday, the Trinidadian soca musician announced his album One Degree Hotter, out later this month, as he released the high-energy music ...

December has arrived, which means we’ll be getting more than a few tastes of the soca anthems seeking to dominate Carnival season next year. But December also means the return of Sting — a notoriously ...

A highly-anticipated show did not disappoint as an all-star lineup of local and regional soca icons graced the stage on Tuesday for Sweet Melanin Night, treating audiences to high-energy performances ...

A performer poses for photos during Miami Carnival at the Miami-Dade County Fair Expo in Miami, Florida on Sunday, October 9, 2022. Sydney Walsh [email protected] Go anywhere in the United States ...

The full-scale war in Ukraine, alongside conflict elsewhere and climate-driven upheaval meant more people than ever remained uprooted from their homes last year, heightening the urgency for immediate, ...

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...