Kimberly Reyes

I was a 16-year-old student at the Bronx High School of Science, scribbling Concrete Blonde lyrics at my desk...

Duran Duran are back!

While most of my friends chose to head-bang to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Guns N’ Roses on the hour-long train ride to high school, my yellow Sports Walkman usually played something a little slower and more somber. From the Geto Boys to The Sisters of Mercy...

Many music careers are over in four years — but that’s how long Jill Scott waited to release her second album.

Not that Scott took a break. She released a live album in 2001, wrote a forthcoming book of poetry called “The Minutes, The Moments, The Hours,” appeared on the UPN sitcom “Girlfriends,” started the Blues Babe foundation (named after her grandmother) for aspiring college students and worked on a Showtime movie called “Cave Dwellers,” which should be out later this year.

Still, with s...

We saw this cute quiz in Buzzfeed and couldn't resist the urge to share. Teen-queen Taylor Swift has been compared to many other lovelorn writers, but this may be the first time acclaimed poet Pablo Neruda has entered the conversation. With lines like:
"Oh, losing him was blue like I'd never known. Missing him was dark grey all along."
attribution can certainly get tricky. Color imagery, mixed metaphors ... what?! Is it the Chilean wordsmith or the crafty chanteuse? Knowing Swift's affinity f...

I think best while moving, walking the manicured streets of my neighborhood—the Inner Richmond—as the fog settles, taking in the pastel-colored Queen Anne houses and neatly groomed gardens of protea flowers.
Last week, I ended up at an art studio near my house. I didn’t want to, but I found myself thinking about the time I went to a friend’s opening there this past summer, and the doorman, who’d been easily welcoming in non-Black people immediately before and after me, hesitated to let me in ...

Yet Do I Marvel: A Tribute to Countee Cullen [by Ki...

In the 2015 New York Times article “Please Stop Making That Noise,” Barron H. Lerner calls misophonia, literally hatred of sound, a “selective sound sensitivity syndrome.” It can be triggered by anything from gum chewing to loud, sudden noises. Per WebMD, a trigger can make a person feel anxious, uncomfortable, and/or give them the urge to flee. A more severe reaction can inspire rage, hatred, panic, fear, emotional distress, a desire to kill or stop whatever is making the noise, skin crawlin...

Few musicians can boast the level of success that Billy Idol attained in the ’80s and early ’90s. Unfortunately, the “live hard and die young” punk rock ethos doesn’t come with a middle-age survival guide.

“When you’re young you never think you’ll be a 50-year-old rocking out with the young bands,” Idol told The Associated Press.

That’s exactly what Idol, 49, hopes to be doing next year.

The pop-punk patriarch has just released “Devil’s Playground,” his first full-length album since 1993’s un...

'Finding a Window' by Kimberly Reyes

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The 10 darkest moments of ''Making the Band'' Anyone who's been watching MTV's ''Making the Band 2'' knows how quickly the show went from being…

Are Queens of the Stone Age the new kings of rock? Their third CD, Songs for the Deaf, scored a No. 17 Billboard 200 debut on Sept. 14. But what do real people think? We took the Q...

Bernie Williams is hoping his new Latin jazz CD is a hit.