Music Features

Lorde Summer is upon us: the pop star’s fourth album Virgin will be out on June 27. It’s been four years since her last album, Solar Power, and the 28-year-old artist’s output between albums tends to be pretty minimal. Fans have been anxiously anticipating what her new era will bring, …

Rob49 has something big to tell me: He’s just realized that Bart Simpson said “What the Halle Berry?” on an old episode of The Simpsons. On two occasions, the “WTHelly” rapper interrupts our Zoom conversation to excitedly mention the revelation, asking someone offscreen to go to the Amazon Prime app …

The All-American Rejects don’t put up with bullshit. So when they announced their new album and played it to a crowd of industry people in Los Angeles, it was too much inauthenticity to handle. “We were like, ‘Man, this is what everybody does, and I fucking hate that this is …

Luke Combs is one of contemporary country music’s biggest live draws, headlining stadiums all last summer on his Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour and playing country festivals. But this summer, country fests are mostly absent from Combs’ tour schedule. While he headlined Stagecoach back in April, bringing out surprise …

After facing multiple lawsuits in recent months alleging sexual assault and other crimes, Sean Combs was indicted Sept. 17 on charges of sex trafficking by force, racketeering conspiracy, fraud or coercion and transporting for prostitution. Combs’ attorney, Marc Agnifilo, called it an “unjust prosecution,” and said his client is “an …

In the video for his latest single, “Courtside,” Karan Aujla cruises around Miami’s South Beach in a Rolls-Royce Cullinan wearing Maybach shades and a Richard Mille watch. Flowing in his native tongue over a breezy, bass-heavy beat, Aujla pulls up to Cartier and the Louis Vuitton store in the Design …

Lotti Golden wasn’t about to miss her big chance. At the age of 17, while still a senior at Canarsie High School in Brooklyn, she’d landed a staff songwriting job with Saturday Music, a song publisher in midtown Manhattan. But Golden had bigger ambitions. So, when her boss, Bob Crewe, …

Billy Corgan has hopped on Zoom to chat about his coming tour with the his new band, the Machines of God, which will revisit Smashing Pumpkins songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Machina, and Aghori Mhori Mei at special small-hall shows. He’s really eager to go over the …

In the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, authors Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn get in the pit with influential bands like Social Distortion, the Offspring, Sublime, the Adolescents, and No Doubt to trace the history of Southern California punk …

Y ou wouldn’t quite call Obongjayar a rapper today, but back in 2016, he caught the eye of Richard Russell — the influential British producer who helped launch Adele’s career and heads the indie label XL Recordings— with a freestyle over Kendrick Lamar’s “u” from To Pimp a Butterfly. The …