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.
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.
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.
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In the early days of 2023, Shabaka Hutchings announced he’d be putting down his saxophone.
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.
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.
Lorde, the xx and Turnstile will headline the seventh Kilby Block Party, which will return to the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City from May 15-17. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Nov. 19), with the lowest-priced early bird options expected to go clean very quickly.
Foo Fighters and Guns N’ Roses will round out the headliners for the 2026 edition of Welcome to Rockville, which, as previously reported, will also feature My Chemical Romance and Bring Me the Horizon when it returns to Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fl., on May 7-10.
Soundgarden, the White Stripes, Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Bad Company, Joe Cocker and Chubby Checker were enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last night (Nov. 8) during a Los Angeles ceremony flecked with superstar contributions from Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Chappell Roan and Missy Elliott.
In typically irreverent fashion, Paramore’s Hayley Williams has purposefully leaked details for her first-ever solo tour, which will begin March 28 in Atlanta. Williams intended to tour solo in 2020 behind her album Petals for Armor, but was unable to do so during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hunter Hayes is stepping into the 2025 holiday season in a major way.
On the surface, and let’s be honest, underneath the surface too, Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo make unlikely collaborators. The intersection of DIY noise rock and instrumental guitar soli (as John Fahey called it) has been a lonely crossroads, but somehow the Oklahoma City musicians make it look like a fruitful place to cut deals and hatch plots.
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters performs during Amazon Music Live Season 4 at East End Studios on October 30, 2025, in Glendale, California. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Amazon Music)" />Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters performs during Amazon Music Live Season 4 at East End Studios on October 30, 2025, in Glendale, California. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Amazon Music)
“Failure” was recorded during 2019 sessions for the album Surviving but was ultimately held back from that project. The song was co-produced by the band and Justin Meldal Johnsen, while Failure leader Ken Andrews engineered and mixed. Check out its skateboarding-themed video below.
The material came together quickly last fall at Dessner’s upstate New York studio Long Pond, but was temporarily put on hold while Mumford & Sons focused first on completing the album RUSHMERE, which was released in late March.
Performing in the round for the first time, Tame Impala was at times nearly drowned out by the screams of a younger female demographic — some of whom perhaps only discovered the band in recent years through Parker’s collaborations with artists such as Dua Lipa and Justice. Parker also professed to be suffering from some kind of illness (he was drinking Throat Coat tea throughout), but his voice rarely sounded strained throughout the two-plus hour, 24-song set.
Taken from the September 1, 2023, performance at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Cornucopia was initially released as a concert film directed by Ísold Uggadóttir earlier this year, along with a shortened audio-only version streaming on Apple Music. This new version, released on vinyl and CD, contains the entire 90-minute experience. The concert film is also available on DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra HD Blu-ray.
Tool, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown and Bring Me the Horizon will headline the next Sonic Temple festival at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Oh., which will take place May 14-17. Pierce the Veil, Breaking Benjamin, the Offspring, Staind, Good Charlotte, Godsmack and Megadeth will further anchor the bill.
As I greet Rob Thomas on our video call, he asks me if I’m getting any of “the weather” that they’re experiencing in the New York City area, where he lives.
Rosalía will make a grand re-entry next month with her fourth album, LUX, which is due Nov. 7 from Columbia. The project was unveiled last night (Oct. 20) around Madrid’s Gran Via, where the lights were turned off and on while revealing the official album artwork (see below).
Tame Impala unveils three songs from its just-released album, Deadbeat, as part of the first installment of the new live video series Sound Check at Cherry Lane Theatre. Filmed at the A24-owned New York venue, the episode sports the live debut of album opener “My Old Ways” plus the pre-release singles “Dracula” and “Loser.”
Beloved R&B singer D’Angelo has died at the age of 51 after battling prostate cancer, according to his family. The musician, whose real name was Michael Archer, had backed out of a June performance at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia “due to a longer-than-expected surgical recovery” without revealing specifics.
The meaning of the word Samsara (the cycle of death) may imply the opposite of Nirvana (the circle of life), yet the New York band of the same name is not unlike the iconic grunge band that still defines an era of misfit musicians from the 90’s. Yet the alt rock band, SAMSARA’s musical oscillation and talent stands on its own merit.
Rush will celebrate a milestone anniversary by hitting the road next year for the first time since the 2015 death of legendary drummer Neil Peart. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, who are both now 72, will be joined for the shows by new drummer Anika Nilles, who previously played with Jeff Beck and has released four solo albums.
Bringing an inspired DJ set to the Pacific Northwest’s Deschutes County Fairgrounds, indie-electronic favorites Passion Pit joined Disclosure, Sylvan Esso, TroyBoi, Big Gigantic, Chromeo (DJ Set) and others for the storied Cascade Equinox festival. Passion Pit front man Michael Angelakos also joined up with hyperpop/dubstep artist Tracey Brakes for an epic b2b during the set.
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Bad Bunny will be the first Puerto Rican artist to headline Apple Music’s Super Bowl Halftime Show on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Ca. The news was revealed tonight (Sept. 28) following weeks of speculation about potential stars Taylor Swift and Adele.
Even in our post-genre era, Doja Cat remains hard to pigeonhole. Since hitting superstardom in 2019, her hits have shifted between hip-hop, pop, R&B, Afrobeat, and even indie singer-songwriter. But even with all that, I didn’t expect Vie.
Post Malone, Lainey Wilson and Cody Johnson will headline the annual Stagecoach festival on April 24-26 at Empire Polo Club in Indio, Ca., as part of a wildly diverse lineup that moves ever farther from the event’s country roots.
One More Time constitutes Aerosmith’s first new music in 12 years and was produced by Matt Schwartz. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton all participated in the recording sessions, although Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver’s Matt Sorum sat in for ailing drummer Joey Kramer.
Tickets are on sale now for AMC Theaters screenings and hundreds of others around the globe.
Updating a story first posted here on Saturday, My Chemical Romance have bolstered their 2026 touring plans following the announcement that they will perform at three major U.S. festivals next year promoted by Danny Wimmer Presents, including Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach, Fl., Sonic Temple in Columbus, Oh., and Louder Than Life in Louisville, Ky.
Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G will headline the 2026 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which descends on Empire Polo Field in Indio, Ca., from April 10-12 and 17-19. See the complete poster below.
Was there ever a time before Margaret Cho? For as long as I can remember, the ever-relevant, effortlessly funny comedian—who also counts actor, musician, and entrepreneur on her résumé—has been part of the zeitgeist.
Blending the grandiosity of arena rock with the refinement of orchestral music,
Bad Bunny and Amazon Music are teaming for a variety of initiatives based in the artist’s native Puerto Rico, including a global livestream of a newly added Sept. 20 finale for his No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí: Una Más residency at José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan.
Gorillaz have gathered another highly eclectic cast of collaborators for their ninth album, The Mountain, which will be released March 20 on the Damon Albarn-led band’s new KONG label. Lead track “The Happy Dictator” features sibling pop auteurs Sparks and can be sampled below.
Extending a New York-area tradition since 2017, LCD Soundsystem will be back in action this winter with another residency, this time comprising 12 shows across three weekends at Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens. Dates for the Bowery Presents-produced run begin Nov. 20 and conclude Dec. 13.
That song ultimately appeared on the band’s international debut album, 2014’s BABYMETAL, along with the driving, swirling “Gimme Chocolate!!”
It was just last year that Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp, two seasoned Los Angeles-based pop songwriters, were feeling a little burnt out, and decided to do something different on the weekends for fun.
Amid their first tour since 2017, Alabama Shakes have released “Another Life,” their first new song in more than a decade. The track precedes their debut album for new label Island Records, a release date for which has yet to be announced.
My Chemical Romance has covered Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 rock radio staple “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” on a handful of occasions during its massive summer tour, but the rendition tonight (Aug. 29) at Chicago’s Soldier Field had extra bite. The group welcomed Pumpkins frontman and Windy City native Billy Corgan to guest on the tune, which closed the evening.
As the music industry continues to transform, a new wave of artists is redefining genres, pushing creative boundaries, and captivating audiences around the world.
Bright Eyes crystallize going to the prom, experimenting with new SSRI medications and navigating the barriers to adulthood on Kids Table, a new eight-song EP arriving Sept. 26 from Dead Oceans.
In the middle of a rainstorm in Miami, Mau y Ricky are finding shelter in the place where they feel most at home—the recording studio.
Bon Jovi have rounded up a deep roster of special guests for an updated version of their 2024 album Forever, which will reappear Oct. 24 via Island in a new Legendary Edition.
Home is a feeling. Home can be a mountain, an island, a stranger’s home where you’re welcomed like family.
Pusha and No Malice had already begun performing “Chains & Whips,” the studio version of which features Lamar, when the artist himself emerged from the back of the stage to rhyme his verse. Afterward, he took a moment to salute the influence of Clipse, whose recent album, Let God Sort Em Out, was their first in nearly 16 years.
Mastodon saluted late member Brent Hinds at the end of its first show ever in Alaska last night (Aug. 22), a day after the guitarist, who left the band in March, was killed in an Atlanta motorcycle accident. See fan-shot footage from the Alaska State Fair performance below.
Chicago has a way of making music feel bigger than sound. It’s in the air, the skyline, and woven into the city’s history —
The last time I saw John Power, frontperson of Cast, was at a mutual friend’s wedding, where he was throwing up out of the hotel window. That was 24 years ago. When I remind him, he says, “Well, you know, those were hedonistic days.”
Maye Osorio couldn’t sleep. One day, while buying a yoga mat at the Grand Central Market’s Bazaar in Downtown Los Angeles, she found out why.
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