At the 1996 Best of the Beat recognizing the best music of 1995, Gina Forsyth and Waylon Thibodeaux’s album Dans La Louisianne won as the best Cajun album. In her acceptance speech Gina Forsyth made ...

Now that Labor Day has passed, it’s time to lay to rest the “best song of the summer” debate—“Blurred Lines” won, by the way—and start looking forward to the slate of new albums coming out this fall.

2013 was the year that we predicted would see dance music having a major impact on the mainstream music scene. Some laughed at us when we presented our case for why that'd occur, but then we saw ...