Few artists have exerted as much influence on popular music with as compact a catalog as Lauryn Hill, a reality underscored last night (June 28) at the BET Awards, where Hill became the first recipient of the ceremony’s newly created Living Legend Icon award.
The Rat Queen is on an eternal mission.
“What has kept me alive is feral invincibility,” Beth Orton wrote in an Instagram post announcing her new album The Ground Above, out June 26 on Partisan.
The Polly Jean Harvey-led PJ Harvey is charting a course toward their next album with “Voyager,” a sweeping new single that arrives three years after the release of the act’s Grammy-nominated I Inside the Old Year Dying.
Remember a time when you first heard a song that changed your life? Nikki Hill really remembers when she first heard singer-songwriter Claire Wadsworth’s “Vows.” Every detail.
While new wave and punk were dominating Manhattan clubs in the ’70s, hip-hop was starting in the Bronx.
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Just over a year after releasing the meditative instrumental EP 7 piano sketches, André 3000 has expanded the project into a short film.
Taylor Swift didn’t spend long searching for inspiration when it came to Toy Story 5.
By the time of the release of Horse Lords’ last proper album, 2022’s Comradely Objects, three-fourths of the group—saxophonist Andrew Bernstein, bassist Max Eilbacher and guitarist Owen Gardner—had left their native Baltimore for Germany, leaving only drummer Sam Haberman in Charm City.
Madonna’s return to the dance floor has moved from the festival circuit to the internet. Days after premiering at the Tribeca Festival to multiple standing ovations, Confessions II – The Film is now available to stream on YouTube.
The breaking news at the second day of the Governors Ball festival didn’t come from a stage but from the sky, as severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings brought the New York event to an early end.
Patton Oswalt is a chronicler of the topical and deeply personal.
Brother Wallace is proof that there are no accidents in life. Just fate, destiny, and divine plans.
Tom Morello has never exactly trafficked in subtlety. So when the Rage Against the Machine guitarist titles a new song “Adjourn It,” recruits System of a Down’s Serj Tankian to howl about fascism and threads footage from a blacklisted 1954 labor rights film through the video, you can guess where things are headed.
In the typical life cycle of a rock band, the early years tend to carry the greatest urgency. Then time smooths the edges, and reunions are fueled more by nostalgia than inspiration. Dogstar has somehow landed on an opposite path.
Twenty years after Taking the Long Way turned backlash into a defiant comeback statement, the Chicks are taking the album back on the road.
After returning to live duty this spring for the first time in two years, Phoebe Bridgers makes a brief appearance in the trailer for the new Robert Pattinson-starring film Primetime, which hits theaters this fall. It serves as the artist’s proper acting debut, although her specific role has yet to be detailed.
“They were the Unfab Four,” Craig Leon laughs. Co-producing the Ramones’ 1976 debut album was like stepping into a strange Bizarro World-meets-the-Beatles for the producer.
It’s been nearly 10 years, but Tank and the Bangas still can’t escape the events of March 10, 2017.
Pearl Jam has indeed chosen its new drummer, but the band is not making any grand reveals ahead of what will be its first show with Matt Cameron’s replacement on Sept. 27 at Eddie Vedder’s Ohana festival in Dana Point, Ca. Former Soundgarden member Cameron exited Pearl Jam amicably in July 2025 after a 27-year-run.
Philadelphia is going big for America’s 250th birthday by placing the city’s music history front and center.
Three decades and 24 albums (!?!) into their career, the Mountain Goats are still finding new ways to transform bizarre pop-culture lore into existential indie rock.
After a couple of hours of sitting with Kid Sistr’s guitarist-vocalist Sabel Englert, bassist Sara Keden, and drummer Becca Webster in the living room area of their producer Suzy Shinn’s studio home in Los Angeles,
Pearl Jam will play its first show since longtime drummer Matt Cameron’s final performance with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers on May 18, 2025, in Pittsburgh, and it will take place on some very familiar grounds.
A quarter of a century after Kid A and Amnesiac reshaped the possibilities of rock music, Radiohead has finally given that fractured, haunted universe a physical form.
In a major win for an original, non-franchise release, Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael dominated the global box office in its debut frame, delivering a massive $97 million opening weekend domestically and $120.4 million overseas for a worldwide total of $217.4 million.
Lizzo has long teased her next album under the moniker Love in Real Life, but the artist has pivoted to an apparently separate new 12-song project dubbed Bitch, which will be released June 5 through Nice Life/Atlantic.
The Stuart Price-produced “Bring Your Love” is expected to appear on Madonna’s upcoming album, Confessions II, which will be out July 3 through Warner Bros. A 19-second preview of the studio version can be sampled below.
Modest Mouse will be back this summer with its first new album in five years — and, notably, its return to an indie ecosystem after spending more than 25 years on Epic.
Beck reunites with longtime producer Nigel Godrich on “Ride Lonesome,” his first new, original music in several years and a clear nod to the acoustic melancholy of albums such as 2002’s Grammy-nominated Sea Change. The song was produced by Beck, with Godrich handling mixing duties.
Ahead of No Doubt’s May 6-June 13 at Las Vegas’ Sphere, guitarist Tom Dumont has disclosed a years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. However, he assured fans he is still able to play his instrument and will participate in the upcoming concerts.
Updating a story first posted here on April 6, Lady Gaga and Doechii will enliven The Devil Wears Prada 2 with the original song “Runway,” which is out now after being teased earlier this week in the final trailer for the film.
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The Strokes will return with their first album in six years this summer in the form of Reality Awaits, which the band announced on social media today (April 6).
A cross-section of music, fashion, and philanthropy converged on The St. Regis Aspen Resort on March 26 for what hosts Amy Green and Black Coffee billed as “An Evening of Music & Impact.”
Just in time for his sixth career appearance tomorrow (April 4) on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Jack White is back with his first new music of 2026.
As expected, Weezer has unveiled “Shine Again,” the lead single from its as-yet-untitled debut for Reprise/Warner Records.
As expected, Bruce Springsteen came out raging against the American political machine last night (March 31)
Honora is the album Flea has always wanted to make.
Pop polymath Dua Lipa is adding another line to her ever-expanding résume — this time as a literary tastemaker.
For the last 25 years, Gorillaz has occupied a rare portion of cultural real estate that few bands or artists have ever been able to own without dissolving into nostalgia or irrelevance.
Robyn performing Jan. 7, 2026, on CBS' "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" (photo: Scott Kowalchyk ©2026 CBS Broadcasting Inc.).
Mumford & Sons and the Strokes will headline the next edtion of the Sea.Hear.Now festival, which will take place Sept. 20-21 on the beach in Asbury Park, N.J.
A day after announcing his return to the live stage while backed by the Roots at their Roots Picnic on May 30 in Philadelphia, JAŸ-Z has revealed even bigger plans.
The cover of the self-titled debut from Jason P. Woodbury & the Nightbird Singing Quartet speaks volumes: It’s modeled on the indelible design of Vintage Contemporaries,
Fairy lights strung across Anjimile Chithambo’s wall cast a warm, pinkish glow across the singer-songwriter’s bedroom. “I know you didn’t mean that gay,” he says when I say I love the lights. “But I deeply feel like a fairy.”
Music from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters and Sinners took top honors at last night’s (March 15) 98th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, with the former’s “Golden” by HUNTR/X winning Best Original Song and the latter’s Ludwig Göransson earning Best Original Score.
George Michael’s 1988 Paris concert in support of his breakthrough solo album Faith will form the backbone of a new film from Mercury Studios, George Michael: The Faith Tour, which will be released in theaters worldwide later this year.
In the early days of 2023, Shabaka Hutchings announced he’d be putting down his saxophone.
Anne Hathaway steps up to the mic as the titular pop star in the upcoming film Mother Mary, the soundtrack for which will feature her singing songs co-written and co-produced by Charli xcx and Jack Antonoff. The first to emerge, “Burial,” can be sampled below.
Fugazi is officially releasing something of a holy grail for ’90s underground music lovers: the pioneering Washington, D.C. band’s long-bootlegged fall 1992 session with late producer Steve Albini for material eventually released the following year on the album In on the Kill Taker.
On an afternoon when Brian Aubert and Nikki Monninger are supposed to be talking with me about Silversun Pickups’ new album Tenterhooks, Aubert can’t help but steer the conversation towards his other love: movies.
Christina Aguilera took the Linda Perry-penned “Beautiful” to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002, and now Perry is revisiting the Grammy-winning song as the lead single of her next solo album, Let It Die Here. The album is out May 8 on Perry’s 670 Records through Kill Rock Stars and is her first solo effort since 1999’s After Hours.
Bon Iver may be on an extended hiatus from live performance, but group leader Justin Vernon is looking back through his concert vault for the first release in a long-percolating new archival series, VOLUMES.
Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers will be back this spring with their fifth album, everyone for ten minutes, which will be available May 22 from Dirty Hit. The lead single, “you and forever” is out now in tandem with an Alex Lockett-directed video starring Antonoff’s wife, actress Margaret Qualley.
Tame Impala will return to North America starting in July for a fresh round of touring with support from Djo and Dominic Fike, per a teaser post on Instagram. So far, only the cities have been revealed, with dates and venues expected to be announced imminently.
Bad Bunny made history yet again as the first Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner to perform entirely in Spanish last night (Feb. 8) at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco, welcoming surprise guests Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin for an homage to the sounds and sights of his native Puerto Rico.
Noah Kahan’s new single has already topped the Spotify U.S. chart within hours of its release, and the Vermont singer/songwriter is aiming for further new heights this summer with his first full stadium tour. Following the April 24 release of The Great Divide (Mercury), Kahan will hit the road beginning June 11 in Orlando, Fla., with support from Gigi Perez.
Hours after they both came up big on the Grammys stage, Post Malone and Jelly Roll have confirmed an extension of their BIG ASS Stadium Tour, which played to more than a million fans and grossed $170 million last summer. The tour will resume May 13 in El Paso, Texas, and has dates on the books through July 28 in Salt Lake City.
Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance this afternoon (Jan. 30) in Minneapolis during a Tom Morello-organized daytime benefit concert for the families of slain protestors Renee Good and Alex Pretti, during which he live debuted his just-released protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” and then dusted off his 1995 track “The Ghost of Tom Joad” for a guitar-solo filled electric version backed by Morello and other musicians.
Netflix will explore the early period of the Red Hot Chili Peppers career in the aptly named documentary The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which will premiere March 20. Per Variety, the film will focus on the formative role of original guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died of a drug overdose in 1988.
It looks like Chan Marshall gets the last laugh. Pitchfork’s oft-dismissive review of her 2006 album The Greatest doesn’t even talk about the music until its third paragraph.
Two days after releasing her debut single on Bandcamp, Dave Grohl’s 19-year-old daughter Violet has signed with Republic Records through her own Auroura Records imprint. Two additional, previously Bandcamp-only tracks, “THUM” and “Applefish,” are also out now on all streaming platforms, with a full-length album expected later this year.
“Anybody could be ‘Ballgame,’ says Tyler Ballgame. “You could be ‘Charles Ballgame.’” The singer-songwriter is referring to baseball great Ted Williams, who earned the nickname “Teddy Ballgame” for his unparalleled talent and unrelenting passion for the sport; a figure Ballgame admires and ultimately took inspiration from.
Death Cab for Cutie have signed with ANTI- Records following the fulfillment of their two decade run at major-label Atlantic, for which the Ben Gibbard-led band released six albums (two of which sold more than 1 million copies). Death Cab has also confirmed a summer tour with support from Jay Som, Japanese Breakfast and Nation of Language.
The wait will soon be over for long-suffering Harry Styles fans, as the former One Direction singer has confirmed a March 6 release for his fourth Columbia studio album, KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY.
“Every time I want to stop, I remember there’s someone somewhere who is silently inspired by the things I do and that motivates me to keep going.” – Victoria Ibek
Roxanne Shanté is listening to her Juice Crew partner Masta Ace talk about RZA’s upcoming EP, Juice Crew, when she has an a-ha moment. Unbeknownst to her, RZA had started the project years ago to accompany the 2017 release of the Shanté biopic Roxanne Roxanne.
Bob Weir, who joined the Grateful Dead on guitar and vocals at the age of 16 and then spent the next 60 years helping shepherd its legacy, died today (Jan. 10) at the age of 78.
A quarter century since the passing of his father — beloved Cockney poet, punk, and actor Ian Dury — there is much that unites the sound of vocalist-composer Baxter Dury to his dad. And more that does not. Especially now that Baxter’s dry, witty brand of sing-speak is married to the bubbling-over electronic music of last Fall’s Allbarone.
Lorde, A$AP Rocky and Stray Kids will delight the throngs at the Governors Ball festival from June 5-7 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, N.Y., as part of a youthful, genre-agnostic lineup.
With his 1982 song “I Have the Touch” enjoying new visibility thanks to its inclusion in the Timothée Chalamet-starring film Marty Supreme, Peter Gabriel is turning his attention to his next studio album, oi. The project’s lead track, “Been Undone,” can be sampled below in its Tchad Blake-helmed Dark-Side Mix.
Mark Feld was born in London in 1947, and adopted the stage name Marc Bolan as a teenager.
Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Doctor Dark, based in part on the 1990 heavy metal trial around two disturbed teenagers’ suicide pact, allegedly inspired by listening to Judas Priest.
Longtime the Cure guitarist/keyboardist Perry Bamonte, who played on such iconic albums as 1992’s Wish and was onstage with the U.K. band for nearly 500 shows over the past 35 years, has died at the age of 65 after a short illness.
The 50th annual Fantasy of Lights Christmas Parade lit up downtown Gatlinburg on Friday, December 5, 2025, bringing joy, music and unforgettable moments to visitors and locals alike. With Grammy-nominated recording artist Hunter Hayes serving as Grand Marshal, Gatlinburg’s world-famous Winter Magic celebration blended tradition with surprise.
It’s a day of mixed news for Rolling Stones fans, as the band has nixed plans for a 2026 stadium tour of U.K,
Sometimes even Mike Dirnt must escape from loud noises. The Green Day bassist and founding member has just been running around his Bay Area house shutting windows and doors, after gardeners unexpectedly turned up the blowers just when Dirnt was about to jump on the phone. “It was dead silent here until about five minutes ago,” he says with a laugh. “It sounded like they were cutting trees down everywhere.”
Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were murdered by their 32-year-old son Nick at their Los Angeles home, according to multiple reports. Per TMZ, the couple were discovered Sunday afternoon (Dec. 14) and appeared to have “suffered lacerations consistent with a knife.
“Christmas in Hollis” almost didn’t happen. According to Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, when Bill Adler, Def Jam Recordings’ first publicist, presented him, Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell, and Joseph “Run” Simmons with the opportunity to participate in the 1987 charity album, A Very Special Christmas, they were skeptical.
“I don’t appreciate things without an erotic charge,” says Lera Lynn, a singular wanderer on the Americana borderlands of country. “I know people really love Taylor Swift, but there’s no sex in that music — no sex or death. That’s what I find lacking in some pop music.”
Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart Kings of Leon, Lainey Wilson, Teddy Swims, Lorde, Jon Batiste, Tyler Childers and David Byrne will headline this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which runs from April 23-May 3 at Fair Grounds Race Course.
Amsterdam-based Turkish psych purveyors Altin Gün mine the catalog Anatolian legend Neşet Ertaş for the source material on their new album, Garip, which will be released Feb. 20 through ATO Records.
Artist/producer Dijon coaxed Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon back to the live stage last night (Dec. 6) during his performances on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, as the latter joined a super-sized band for the occasion also featuring Zack Villere, Nick Hakim and former Dirty Projectors vocalist Amber Coffman.
With her new BMG album West End Girl still buzzing, U.K. artist Lily Allen has announced a nine-date North American tour in support of it next spring.
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“You guys are so happy right now, I feel bad for what’s about to happen,” Noah Kahan jokes from the center of Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway’s stage.
Evanescence is bringing Spiritbox, Nova Twins, Poppy and K.Flay along for a 2026 world tour, the band’s first in four years. Dates begin June 11 in West Palm Beach, Fl., and will run through Oct. 26 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver.
Radiohead are postponing their shows planned for tonight (Dec. 1) and tomorrow in Copenhagen to allow frontman Thom Yorke to recover from “an extreme throat infection which has made it impossible for him to sing. Treatment is underway.”
Jimmy Cliff, whose performance in the1972 film The Harder They Come helped reggae music dent the mainstream for the first time, died today (Nov. 24) at the age of 81. According to a statement from his family, the cause was a seizure followed by pneumonia.
If the name of the band Man/Woman/Chainsaw sounds familiar, that’s because its members took inspiration from Carol J. Clover’s 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, which explores the “final girl” horror film trope.
“I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and I did the show anyway,” he said. “I couldn’t really see well, so when we went to Houston, I went to the hospital, and the doctor was like, ‘you had a stroke.’ And the first thing I thought was like, ‘oh, here I am still copying Jamie Foxx.’ That’s really like the second thing. The first thing was like, ‘I’m letting everybody down.’”
The following week, actor Josh O’Connor will host and the resurgent Lily Allen will perform for the first time since 2007. The latter’s no-holds-barred new album, West End Girl, has become a quick critical darling and is also sizzling on the U.K. charts.
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