Music Features

At New York’s City Winery two years ago, both sides of the late J.D. Souther were on display. In a tidy dressing room backstage, Souther, looking like a dapper Old West ranch owner in his tailored suit and white hair and whiskers, was regaling a few visitors with stories. Among …

The auction for Dame Dash’s shares of Roc-A-Fella Inc. is currently at a legal stalemate. Last week, the New York Department of Social Services (NYCDSS) filed a motion with U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger asking for a pre-motion hearing to assess Roc-A-Fella’s internal records and long-term outlook. The department’s …

When Lady Gaga wrapped her third movie — the upcoming Joker sequel, Folie à Deux — she realized she wasn’t ready to move on from her character, Harleen “Lee” Quinzel, a.k.a. Harley Quinn. “I had such a deep relationship with Lee,” she tells Rolling Stone. “And when I was done …

One evening back in May, Sunflower Bean found themselves in the woods of upstate New York, caked in 200 pounds of clay. They were shooting Shake, a short film to accompany their EP of the same name, and their goal was to look as muddy as possible — a direct …

Even before he was federally indicted on charges of bribery, wire fraud, and soliciting campaign contributions from a foreign national, New York mayor Eric Adams had his share of WTF moments. There was the time he was asked what made New York special and he answered, bizarrely, “This is a …

Welcome to ourweeklyrundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Stevie Nicks delivers a powerful women’s rights anthem, Lady Gaga drops a surprise jazz album, and Rauw Alejandro rolls through with some heart-tugging slickness. Plus, Mickey Guyton, Billy Strings, …

There’s pacing yourself, and then there’s being Kurious, the New York rapper who’s put out five albums in 30 years. On Oct. 18, he’ll reveal his latest act by dropping an album called Majician. Crafted over three years from 2016 to 2019, it’s a testament to his decades-long friendship with …

M ethod Man’s star power was evident from the moment listeners heard him on Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), especially the album’s lone solo single, which carried his name. During our recent Zoom call, he tells me in his gravelly baritone that he’s still likely to listen to that project …

“Africa to the world” has been a popular rallying cry from the continent and its diaspora as the global appetite for its culture has grown rapidly. Many hope to further extend its reach. Yet, as African artisans connect and build upon one another’s successes, they’ve come to center themselves. “Made …

Music is an art form — and so is translation. Annie Clark, who’s better known as the boundary-pushing art-rock firebrand St. Vincent, recently learned this firsthand as she pored over every lyric of her seventh album, All Born Screaming, alchemically transforming each word into Spanish. Clark, 41, grew up in …