Music

It’s 8:30 a.m., and Alice Cooper looks surprisingly serene for a man who’s missing tee time. “Golf is as addictive as crack, and I’ve done both,” he says, laughing, as he slides into a booth of an empty New York hotel bar. “If we’re on a regular tour, my guitar player and I play nine

The year was 1976. Everything was weird — but especially the music. Everyone walked around saying “Dy-no-mite!” or “Up your nose with a rubber hose.” Jimmy Carter became the first President to hang out with the Allman Brothers. The Apple computer and VHS player were invented. So was The Muppet Show. The Farrah Fawcett poster

In return to Vegas after cancer battle, singer cuts short the second show in Westgate residency, cancels the third due to illness Barry Manilow’s return to the Las Vegas stage following his cancer battle was cut short this weekend as the singer was hit with bronchitis. Manilow’s Las Vegas residency was postponed numerous times —

Tinashe performs “Nobody Wanna Dance Anymore” and “Melatonin” from her new LP Popstar during her friend Charli’s headlining set Charli XCX brought out Tinashe to perform a pair of tracks off her new album Popstar during XCX’s ACL Festival headlining set Friday. Charli hinted at Tinashe’s guest spot earlier in the day, dancing to that

Rush and Steely Dan have nothing and everything in common. They each specialize in technically daunting recordings that other musicians envy; they’ve both recorded great songs about the emptiness of the suburbs (“Subdivisions” and “Deacon Blues”). Their lyrics are anomalously cerebral for rock, usually in very different ways, though Donald Fagen and Walter Becker‘s line

A t first, Nat Myers thought his problems could be blamed on a crummy mattress. On tour behind his 2023 release, the Dan Auerbach-produced Yellow Peril, Myers’ back had started to hurt. Slowly, surely, never really going away. Life as a touring artist is hard on the body, he thought: cheap beds in worse hotels,

Kacey Musgraves is leaning further into música mexicana — and her Texas pride. The country singer has tapped the Texan group Intocable for a new Spanish version of fan-favorite track “Uncertain, TX.” On the rerecording, Musgraves doubles down on the cumbia-inspired flavor of the track and sings entirely in Spanish as she harmonizes with lead

Dolly Parton’s estate says yellow caution tape and barbed wire crisscrossed the steps to her nephew Bryan Seaver’s front door as a process server was making repeated attempts to serve him with a lawsuit accusing him of using a “campaign of threats” to “extract money” from the late music icon’s business interests. Lawyers for the

It isn’t the first time the rapper has declined to submit for awards consideration Drake’s trio of albums — Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour — won’t be submitted for consideration in the 2026 Grammys, according to a report from Billboard. The projects, Drake’s first solo releases in the wake of the great 2024 rap

During a recent show in California, the singer yelled “Fuck ICE” and “Free Palestine” Hayley Williams has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. When performing her Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party track “Ice in My OJ,” the singer shouted “Fuck ICE” and “Free Palestine” during her stop in Chula

The song comes off the group’s most recent album, Prizefighter Mumford & Sons appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform their recent song “Here.” The British rock band was joined by Chris Thile, who took over Chris Stapleton’s vocal part from the recorded version of the track. “Here” comes off Mumford & Sons’ sixth album,

Only a nor’easter could have stopped Boston hardcore band Haywire from performing the dates leading up to the release of their new album, I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye. They were booked to play a string of gigs late last month, including a high-profile slot at New York’s CBGB Festival, until they were all wiped out

Lennon Stella knows it’s been a while since she released new music — six years to be exact. But the 27-year-old songwriter needed time to relax and unwind. Or, as she puts it, slow the hell down. “I had taken some time for the first time, really in my life,” she says. “I had been

Princeton historian and longtime Rolling Stone contributor Sean Wilentz’s new book ‘Bob Dylan: Through the Open Window (1956-1963)‘ is an essential portrait of a great artist in formation. The book captures Dylan “turning musical sketches into the songs that first made him famous and endure.” It’s also a powerful evocation of a lost world: the

The former American Idol contestant and church worship leader convicted of murdering his wife and staging the scene to look like a burglary was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday. Caleb Flynn, 40, was convicted last week after jurors needed only two-and-a-half hours to agree he shot his wife,

The song, featuring Model/Actriz, is her latest single from the chart-topping Bass Persuades Miley has dropped the scorching video for “Different Religion,” her new single from her 10th studio album, Bass Persuades. Directed by Mert Alas, the cinematic visual opens on a desert road flanked by mountains, and a car speeds through, which is later

Less than a week after announcing dates for hisFree Palestine Tour, Macklemore took to social media to announce that all three dates in Dublin, Paris, and London have “sold out immediately.” The Seattle rapper announced his own headlining dates following the fallout of hisremoval from Ed Sheeran’s stadium tourfor voicing support of the Palestinian people

Over 50 years ago, hip hop was born in the Bronx during the summer of 1973. Throughout the decades, hip hop continues to evolve as a global cultural movement that inspires artists and fans alike. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a self-professed fan of hip hop who used to rap under the moniker “Young Cardamom,” recently sat