Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Rapper Macklemore is being praised online after he shared a new song that supports Palestine and student protests happening around the world. Titled "Hind's Hall," the song also pays tribute to ...

The music discovery app also reveals its user-identified picks for 2014. By C. Molly Smith Leading the pack with six nominations, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will go head-to-head against Justin Timberlake ...

Macklemore’s newest single “Hind’s Hall”—inspired by the pro-Palestinian activism seen at Columbia University and other college campuses around the world—is the latest addition to the catalog of ...

The song denies that the protests are antisemitic. (JTA) — One week after pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied a building at Columbia University were ejected and arrested, the rapper Macklemore has ...

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – the Seattle music pair who have become best-selling artists internationally – are the first duo to send their first two singles to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The ...

It’s easy to make jokes about Macklemore, the white rapper from Seattle who blew up and scored a couple of #1 hits a decade ago. But whatever you think of his hits — or even his politics — Macklemore ...

"Macklemore," one of the most prominent people in the Seattle music scene, is in hot water for some recent comments he made while at a concert in Seattle. The Mariners typically play one of his songs ...