The change was first seen in an announcement on Tuesday that revealed that the rapper would perform with The Roots at their ...

Jay-Z debuts a name change. Shawn Corey Carter, known professionally as Jay-Z, has added an umlaut to his existing stage name ...

Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, has reintroduced an umlaut to his stage name, now styling himself as JAŸ-Z. This deliberate return ...

A pair of dots can carry a surprising amount of history. Jay-Z has quietly updated his stage name to JAY-Z, restoring an ...

1. The word "umlaut" comes from one of the Brothers Grimm. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning ...

Umlauts and heavy metal go together like Jack and Coke — and we can thank Motörhead mastermind Lemmy Kilmister for teaching us that very important lesson. Among the countless tributes published in the ...

For Mötley Crüe, inspiration struck—as it often does—while under the influence. It was the early 1980s, and bandmates Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, and Nikki Sixx were imbibing Löwenbräu beer, a German ...

Q: First, I’d like to thank the BND and reporter Will Buss for finally spelling the name of Belleville’s new German restaurant and beer hall correctly last Wednesday — Hofbräuhaus — with the umlaut ...

If the heavy metal umlaut demonstrates anything, it is a simultaneous dissatisfaction with English and an inability to escape it. To adorn an English band name or album title with an umlaut reveals an ...

1. The word “umlaut” comes from one of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob Grimm was not only a collector of fairy tales (along with his brother Wilhelm), but also one of the most famous linguists ever. In 1819 ...