As Chappell Roan once sang, in New York you can try things. So it was the perfect place for her to make her big American return. Saturday night in New York was Chappell’s first U.S. show in nearly a year, after her summer of conquering European festivals. She’s bringing it …
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It’s no coincidence that Turnstile’s NPR Tiny Desk concert dropped less than a week before they kicked off their biggest headlining U.S. tour to date. Unlike other artists who’ve played the venerable D.C. studio, Turnstile brought their own flair, crowd, and pit, and were presumably the first band to stage …
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Maybe phones at concerts aren’t such a bad thing. The existential gripes from older generations about the sanctity of live show experiences seem to misunderstand the moment. For a generation whose existence is mostly, if not entirely, lived through devices, peering through the hypnotic glow of their phone screens at …
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“This world, as we all know, can be so full of criticism and discrimination and negativity,” Sabrina Carpenter said Sunday at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. “So to get to be part of something, so more often than not, that is something that can bring you light, make you …
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Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to Earl.” The Wood Brothers’ lead singer then delivered a moving version of “Postcards from Hell,” off their …
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If anyone was going to be salty about their breakups going into Labor Day weekend, it’s certainly not the Beaches. All four members of Toronto’s casually cool indie-pop band —lead singer and bassist Jordan Miller, guitarists Kylie Miller and Leandra Earl, and drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel — traded brokenhearted resentment and …
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Robert Earl Keen was three songs into his headlining set at his Applause for the Cause benefit last Thursday night, as a crowd of 5,600 exhausted, sweaty, and fulfilled fans hung on his every word. They had been brought here through tragedy, but this was a night of healing at …
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Look, it’s not as if Metallica in the year of the Lord 2025 is anything remotely like these lovable 20-year-old miscreants who terrorized the Bay Area and beyond. They’re all in their sixties now, kinder, gentler, and presumably insanely loaded rock gods who you could see being the quirky, out-of-place …
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The last time Oasis played a concert in the United States, it was December 2008, and the band was just months away from a backstage fracas between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher in Paris that would prematurely end the tour, estrange the siblings for more than a decade, and sink …
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It’s Saturday night in New Jersey, and My Chemical Romance have set the MetLife stage on fire — literally. Flames engulf the stage floor and bright orange flares shoot up in bursts around lead singer Gerard Way, bassist Mikey Way, and guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro as the band …
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