Music Features

O ne day in May 1988, Antoine Le Grand, a photographer in Paris, was sent on a mysterious assignment for a culture magazine called Globe. Two young men had called the office claiming to be the culprits in one of rock’s most legendary heists: the recent theft of a 300-pound …

On a picturesque morning in late July, the rapper Aminé is perched at a cobalt-blue dining table in his airy Hollywood home. As he and three close collaborators fine-tune the artist’s upcoming set lists, one of his most important musical inspirations gazes out at them from a wall flanked by …

S unlight is spilling through the wide windows at Wondaland West, Janelle Monáe’s rustic creative campus tucked in the hills above Hollywood, when Lucy Dacus takes her place on set. The two artists — in matching navy Thom Browne blazers — are sitting across from each other in worn leather …

“I’m a bit of a troublemaker,” says Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows. The self-described atheist is referencing the reaction to a video message he recorded for Israeli hostages Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal, welcoming the two men home after two years in captivity. Gilboa-Dalal, who was 22 when kidnapped by …

When the NFL, Roc Nation, and Apple Music announced that Bad Bunny would be the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, the noise started almost immediately. On one side, there were cheers and excitement: His fans recognized the historic nature of the performance, which will go down in the books as …

In the mid-1980s, when Charley Pride was in between record contracts, he went into a Dallas studio with an all-star cast of area musicians to record a series of songs by Brook Benton. He intended to turn the project into a tribute album to the R&B mainstay and “Rainy Night …

Well before Ghost and Sleep Token took anonymity to the extreme, Kiss kept rock & roll fans guessing with simple makeup and high heels. But no matter how obscured Ace Frehley’s human face and torso may have been, it was easy to discern that a comedian with crackerjack timing lived …

“Rocky Horror is not just a movie. It’s a fucking gateway drug,” NOFX frontman/punk impresario Fat Mike told the sold-out crowd at Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum on Oct. 15. “It makes people feel like not only can they be different, but it’s better to be different. I would listen to …

The rock world is in a state of deep mourning for Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, who died Thursday following a fall at his home. “We are devastated by the passing of Ace Frehley,” Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley said in a joint statement. “He was an essential and irreplaceable rock …

The story of Tupac Shakur has been told many times since his tragic death at just 25 following a drive-by shooting in 1996. Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration. Jeff Pearlman’s new biography, Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac …