From the moment he first heard Tame Impala, Thundercat felt a profound sense of connection to Kevin Parker — which made his desire to work with the Australian psych whiz more of a need than a want. “There’s a part of me that felt like we’d be in a band …

Kevin Morby hasn’t completely closed the door on This is a Photograph, the introspective seventh studio album he released last year. On it, he walked a thin line between autobiographical and fictional storytelling while exploring the way childhood memories change with age. But even those 12 songs weren’t enough for …

Desmond Child, the songwriter who’s penned hits for multiple generations of rock and pop stars — from Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer” to Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” — will publish his first memoir, Livin’ On a Prayer: Big Songs Big Life, Sept 19 via Radius Book Group. …

When Annie Blackman was 13, she met Taylor Swift. It was the fall of 2011, and like countless middle schoolers, she’d been listening all year to Speak Now, marveling at perfectly phrased darts like “Dear John” and “Mean.” “I started the whole music journey as a big Taylor Swift girl,” …

If you’re a little bit bored by Tuesday’s announcement that Joe Biden is running for re-election, I sympathize. The guy and his re-election campaign are not that exciting. Ageism aside, he’s 80 and showing it. He’s basically an establishment liberal, not pushing for the kinds of systemic changes that many …

K esha was on the verge of a panic attack in the spring of 2020 when her aging cat Mr. Peeps brought over her headphones. She’d been spiraling a lot back then, like so many people, her anxiety mounting as the pandemic shut down the music industry — but she …

Harry Belafonte, the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist, died Tuesday, April 25, Rolling Stone has confirmed. He was 96. Belafonte died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine adding the cause was congestive heart failure. Belafonte rose to prominence in …

Joe Biden is back for another round. The president has put doubts to rest, and declared himself a candidate for reelection in 2024. Biden made the announcement in a video address released early Tuesday morning, exactly four years after he announced his 2020 campaign. “Around the country, MAGA extremists are …

After abruptly canceling his concert in Oxford, Mississippi, moments before he was scheduled to take the stage on Sunday evening, Morgan Wallen has at least given more than a few minute’s notice that the next three stops on his One Night at a Time tour will not be held as …

Vulnerable communities in New England are increasingly under threat by a violent, neo-Nazi gang with “revolutionary” delusions of transforming the region into a white ethnostate. The actions, tactics, and command structure of the hate group NSC-131 are the focus of an exhaustive new investigation by the anti-fascist research organization Task …