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One evening three months ago, Paul Klein was riding his Vespa through the streets of Los Angeles. Asthe LANY singer passed through an intersection, a car taking a left smashed into him, hurling Klein across the car’s windshield. When he woke up in an ambulance 20 minutes later, Klein found …

D ozens of characters live and yearn in PJ Harvey‘s songs. There’s the Devil-plagued stalker narrating “To Bring You My Love”; the “prettiest mess you’ve ever seen” in “Angelene”; and, most recently, the lost girl, Ira-Abel, beguiled by an oracle and a ghost-like Elvis figure in all the songs from …

The members of the New York City-based band Blair could use a hand figuring out how to describe their music. The group’s sound moves intuitively through the expansive psychedelic slacker rock ethos of the Flaming Lips into pop-punk, hip-hop, and even electronic, all with alchemic cohesion. It’s the sound of …

Last fall, State Champs went on a spiritual quest to Joshua Tree. At least, that’s how lead singer Derek DiScanio, 31, describes the pop-punk band’s trip there to start work on their new album. “We took a week, and we just had a little team bonding,” he says over a …

Near the end of fashion week, and a day before the VMAs, New York is even more bustling than usual. At Manhattan’s Sei Less, Detroit rapper Babyface Ray and I got a glimpse of just how popular he — and upscale Asian food — are in the industry.A slew of …

With just under four months left in 2024, there have already been more hip-hop songs to top Billboard‘s Hot 100 Songs (and as many rap albums on the 200 albums chart) than in all of 2023, the sign of a resurgent year for the most popular genre in the country. …

About a month ago, Zara Larsson‘s friends started sending her obscure TikTok videos that used her song with Clean Bandit, “Symphony.” The posts had random observations or dark self-loathing messages — like “I have social anxiety,” “I’m scared of people,” and “I’m pregnant and it’s yours” — written over images …

Ever since they returned to the road in February 2023 following a six-year hiatus, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have largely stuck to a rigid setlist that tells a story about friendship, loss, resilience, and making the most of the time we have left. This has frustrated some …

Kendrick Lamar doesn’t want to be a savior, but he’s certainly a spokesman on his latest track, released guerilla style just days after his Super Bowl LIX announcement. The song, where Kendrick raps that it’s time to “let the party die,” doesn’t find him expressing much joy at being the …

“You can’t really retire from this business,” Willy Braun says. “It’s impossible.” Two years into Reckless Kelly’s three-year plan to retire from touring, the frontman and co-founder of the Texas by way of Idaho band has not wavered in his desire to slow down. But with a brand new album, …