B ryan Ferry has been making mischief for more than 50 years, on the margins of the rock world. But he’s still not done. He began as the singer/peacock/visionary of Roxy Music, but he started making his own solo records almost as soon as the band began. Retrospective: Selected Recordings …
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There sure has been a lot of discourse this year about who can play country music. But at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s annual Medallion Ceremony on Sunday, officially inducting this year’s class, the answer was “anyone who showed up.” That included two members of the Rock & Roll …
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Peter Frampton‘s road to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a long one. The former Humble Pie guitarist has been eligible as a solo artist since 1997, but he wasn’t even nominated until this year. “It’s something I never expected,” he told Rolling Stone shortly after getting the …
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A few days before Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band convened at the Vogel theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, to start rehearsals for their 2023 Letter to You tour, filmmaker Thom Zimny received a short text from Springsteen. “Getting the band together,” it read. “You should stop by.” …
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Donald Trump loves music. It does not love him back. But neither fact has ever been more obvious than this week, when he made his DJ debut. Even by his standards, it was a bizarre instant-classic trainwreck. At his Monday town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, he quit taking questions …
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Wearing a feathered cowboy hat and a brand-new black jacket with “Great Western” printed across the back and “Hassie” stitched on the front —for his wife, fellow Yellowstone star Hassie Harrison —Ryan Bingham stood and watched the house lights fall over the Texas Gentlemen. Just a few moments earlier, the …
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T imbaland and Metro Boomin are sitting in 11th Street Records in Las Vegas one afternoon in July, talking about the difference between a hit and a classic. “You did ‘Bad and Boujee,’ ” Timbaland notes, referring to the 2016 Migos track Metro produced. “That’s a classic.” Metro offers his own …
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E veryone in the band knew there was a problem, even if they didn’t know exactly how to fix it. It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang — the once-dominant jazz and funk group whose biggest hits propelled clubs all over the …
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You’re tooling around in eastern Pennsylvania, Lexington, Kentucky, or North Carolina and see what looks like one of those ubiquitous signs for a political candidate. You look closer: pro Harris or pro Trump? But wait, they’re voting for … RZA? Ghostface Killah? Method Man? “It really looks like a legit …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Kylie Minogue loses herself on the dancefloor, a hypnotic track from the new Bon Iver EP, and a searing bonus cut from the deluxe edition of Gracie Abrams …
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