Music Features

For filmmaker Bill Teck, the hardest part of making a documentary about the life and career of Little Steven Van Zandt was just fitting it all in. “It’s just a complicated life,” says Teck, who directed the new documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, streaming now on Max. “Silvio Dante helped …

Camila Cabello hasn’t had it easy with her latest album C, XOXO. Since dropping the lead single “I Luv It” in March, she’s been criticized for “trying too hard” to go against the radio pop identity that she built with her hits “Havana” and Señorita” — two songs, by the …

Robyn Hitchcock, the prolific British singer-songwriter and frontman of the Soft Boys, is releasing a new memoir that focuses on an instrumental year in his life, 1967. 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, out Friday via Akashic Books, finds Hitchcock reminiscing about the Summer of Love-defining …

Welcome to our weeklyrundown ofthe best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week,Megan Thee Stallion joins forces with GloRilla to serve up a hot southern girl summer bop, Lisa from Blackpink gives herself a new title, and Clairo wanders deep into …

P icture yourself walking up to a nondescript brick building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on an 80-degree spring night, and through a grimy gray metal door off a narrow hallway. It’s dark inside the room, with candles laid out along the base of the bare white walls and about 75 people …

Megan Thee Stallion’s third studio album and sixth body of work, Megan, is ripe for a Hot Girl Summer of feeling yourself (literally — more on that in a second), brushing off haters, and living your best life. After the more experimental debut of Good News and the grave tone …

When Egyptian artist Bayou joined forces with Gaza-raised musician Saint Levant at Coachella this year, something clicked. Effortlessly switching between Arabic and English, sometimes even within a single bar, Bayou delivered an electrifying performance of his self-branded “Egyptian R&B” track “Haifa Wehbe.” Those few minutes on stage were a powerful …

When you listen to Mabe Fratti’s music, it’s hard to imagine the artist ever being nervous. She can sing in a way that sounds tender and vulnerable, yet there’s a strength about her, too. Her cello — her main instrument, though she incorporates other acoustic and electronic sounds into her …

Ten floors above the heart of Times Square, afternoon sunlight fills a Manhattan recording control room as Flau’jae Johnson sits in front of a bank of screens and soundboards, staring at herself in outer space. It’s mid-May, more than a month before the release of Johnson’s debut studio EP, Best …

The Kinks were heading into uncharted territory in the Sixties. The London rockers blew up in the early days of the British invasion, topping the charts with violently rowdy bangers like “You Really Got Me.” But Ray Davies began to explore a new kind of introspective songwriting, telling stories of …