Music Features

When I open my Zoom conversation with Brooklyn-born, LA-based MC Radamiz, he’s a one-week newlywed, and Lightman, his first full-length LP in six years, had just dropped. It’s a momentous time for him that feels like a consequence of the intention he pours into every aspect of his life, including …

A$AP Rocky‘s long-awaited comeback album, Don’t Be Dumb, is still nowhere in sight, but he does have two new songs in Spike Lee‘s new movie, Highest 2 Lowest, which also features A$AP in a leading role. “Trunks” and “Both Eyes Closed” will both appear on the film’s soundtrack album, due …

Picture this: A relationship pulverizes your heart into such itty-bitty fragments, it honest-to-God feels like you’re never going to recover or have feelings for anyone ever again. But rather than wallow, you pour everything into a riotous, infectiously catchy song with a loud, careening chorus where you call your ex …

When Lukas Nelson issued his album American Romance earlier this summer, it marked the first release under his own name. Up until then, the singer, songwriter, and guitarist fronted the group Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, which eventually went on to back Neil Young for nearly five years. …

David Gilmour initially resisted playing Pink Floyd classics on his 2024 solo tour —but as seen in the just-released trailer to his new concert film, David Gilmour Live at the Circus Maximus Rome, he quickly changed his mind. “One has to wake up to reality once in a while,”he toldRolling …

ON AN EARLY afternoon in July, singer-songwriter Billianne is sitting at home in Milton, Ontario, surrounded by the green walls of the house she shares with her parents. These days, her life has been changing so much that she’s been dreaming of moving — she’s been playing with the idea …

About 15 years into a career as a country-noir singer-songwriter, Tami Neilson received some good news last week. Her latest album, Neon Cowgirl, had broken into the Top 10 of the Americana Music Association’s radio chart, joining records by Mumford & Sons, Tyler Childers, and Alison Krauss & Union Station. …

When Ozzy Osbourne brought Metallica on tour in 1986, he noticed his young opening act blasting Black Sabbath in their dressing room and covering his old band’s songs in soundchecks. Osbourne’s first assumption, he said later, was that Metallica were mocking him. He was stunned to learn they were actually …

When songwriters Mark Sonnenblick and EJAE were first contacted to work on Netflix’s ambitious animated musical KPop Demon Hunters, the two thought it would be a fun and unique project to add to their musical résumés. A madcap animated film following a K-pop girl group that moonlights as the mystical …

When 5 Seconds of Summer were invited to join the nostalgia-heavy When We Were Young Festival in 2023, their immediate response was an eager yes. They likely would have ended up on the Las Vegas Festival Grounds even if they weren’t performing. The bill was an exhaustive list of nearly …