John Fogerty could have celebrated his 80th birthday with a quiet family meal at home or a private party with his closest friends. Instead, he gathered nearly 3,000 people in New York’s Beacon Theatre, took the stage alongside his longtime band — which includes his sons Shane Fogerty and Tyler …

Jeff Weiss has a lot to say.He’s in the middle of a Zoom, which has swerved from the early-2000s Los Angeles club scene, to his favorite hard-boiled detective novels, to what it was like in the pre-iPhone era when we all had to print out directions on MapQuest. Charlie Brown …

“When the light came big and bright, I began another life,” Alex G sings slowly, like he’s making sense of it, on his new single, “Afterlife.” It’s a pleasant meditation on growing up (“We were mean and 17/Make it like a dream,” goes another lyric) imbued with nostalgic touches like …

Travis Roberts is emphasizing the “alt” in alt-country. On his debut album, Rebel Rose, coming Aug. 1 on New West Records, the Amarillo, Texas, songwriter channels the punk sounds of Jimmy Eat World, the power-pop of Gin Blossoms, and the grit of the album that changed his life, Steve Earle’s …

Lorde is packing her forthcoming studio album, Virgin, with visceral feelings. She recently described the lyrics on the record, out June 27, as being “right on the edge of gross,” leaning into the “grotesque nature” of garnering an intimate understanding of her body. With the record still a few weeks …

It was the crane kick seen ’round the world. There he is, skinny and picked-upon Daniel LaRusso, squaring off with the Cobra Kai dojo’s resident Aryan-youth bully and ace leg-sweeper Johnny Lawrence, in the final round of the All-Valley Karate tournament. His sensei, Nariyoshi Miyagi, watches impassively from the sidelines …

Follow all our Sean Combs trial coverage A former personal assistant for Sean Combs took the witness stand Thursday and claimed the Bad Boy Records founder worked her around the clock, physically abused her and subjected her to “traumatizing” sexual assaults that she had planned to take to her grave. …

In just four weeks, Bruce Springsteen will release Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a collection of seven LPs he recorded in full and then shelved between 1983 and 2018. In the build-up to the release, Springsteen has shared several songs from the project, including “Blind Spot” from the drum loop …

As John Fogerty begins talking about his new album, a bemused smile comes over his face. “I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version,” he says during a recent visit to New York. “I lobbied very much to the record company.” Whether he’s joking or not, Fogerty says his label passed …

Thom Yorke has reworked his unreleased track “Gawpers” for the new song “Dialing In,” which doubles as the opening theme for the upcoming Apple TV+ series Smoke. Back in 2019, the Radiohead frontman staged a series of Philharmonie de Paris performances with French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labeque where …