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When the late Bradley Nowell’s son, Jakob Nowell, joined the reunited Sublime with original members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, he originally thought it would be a touring-only project. “The Sublime catalog is sacred,” he says now. “We don’t wanna ruin it.” But when he started experimenting with singing along …

For Noah Cyrus, music and family are inextricable. The daughter of Billy Ray and sister of Miley, Noah Cyrus, 25, grew up in and around the music industry, beginning her own musical experiments as a teen and later finding her footing as an artist with the 2022 release of her …

In February 2019, Robert Plant booked a trio of shows at tiny, off-the-radar theaters across England with a new band he dubbed Saving Grace. Each night they played an eclectic mix of covers like Donovan’s “Season of the Witch,” Townes Van Zandt’s “Nothin,’” Patty Griffin’s “Standing,” and even a couple …

The weekend of July 4 was relatively stacked with hip-hop releases from stars who have been beloved in the genre for years, but data from Luminate and Billboard reveal that few of them made the kind of impact they’d once been capable of. Drake fired shots at fake friends on …

After a long couple of years, Amanda Shires is ready to reemerge. Her grandmother and, more recently, her father, died. There have been moments of crying at the gym (“like the Taylor Swift song,” Shires says), and moments of feeling so numb she could no longer feel her body. There’s …

T here’s a peculiar rhythm to a Dutch Interior song, one that never quite settles where you’d expect it to. Guitars jangle and lurch, drums press forward then pull back, vocals arrive a half-step late or early, as if someone’s letting you in on something they’ve just realized themselves. The …

Bebe Buell turns 72 today, and the rock & roll grand dame has never been more vital. Or more appreciative of her time on this planet. Last summer, the singer, songwriter, and model was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram. She had a lumpectomy, and then a breast …

When Jessie Murph returns home to northern Alabama, she heads to the gas station for an oversize cup of boiled peanuts. It’s one of several rituals she now enjoys when she comes back to the region that Murph despised growing up in and fled as a teenager. “My relationship with …

Twenty years into their career as a band, All Time Low hit a crossroads. They had just re-recorded and released a compilation album, revisiting the catalog hits that made them pop-punk pioneers in the mid-aughts. As All Time Low tapped into the nostalgia of past milestones, they were forced to …

ASAP Rocky has been teasing his forthcoming album Don’t Be Dumb by name for over two and a half years, over the span of which he: performed potential tracks on it at Rolling Loud twice, starred in two high-profile feature films, began raising one infant with Rihanna, welcomed another, and …