Music Features

Rappers Sugarhill Ddot and Star Bandz have the kind of natural, easy friendship where it doesn’t take a whole lot for them to understand each other. They had a feeling it would be like this: The second Ddot sent Star “My Baby,” a song from his album 2024 album 2 …

Last month, Nils Lofgren was watching the Grammy Awards when he came upon a familiar sight. After Benson Boone started his performance of “Beautiful Things” in the audience, Lofgren observed Boone jump atop a piano and execute a side backflip; he then launched into yet another flip midway through the …

The National Football League has outlawed the “nose wipe” as a celebration. On March 26, ESPN NFL analyst Ben Solak made an X post revealing, “According to the full rules report sent to NFL teams this week, the ‘nose wipe’ celebration is now a 15-yard penalty for being a ‘violent …

Jason Scott knows that he and his band, the High Heat, aren’t part of the mainstream. And they’re just fine with that. “We’re outside the norm of radio country,” Scott says. “We’re sort of fringe, and that’s where we like it.” That may change soon, however. The Oklahoma City-based five-piece …

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, we get a bright highlight from the deluxe edition of Ariana Grande‘s Eternal Sunshine, indie troubadour Lucy Dacus taps Hozier for an achingly sweet break-up number; …

Terry Manning, a music producer and engineer who collaborated with Led Zeppelin, Big Star, and ZZ Top, died at his home in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday. He was 77. Just two weeks earlier, a jovial Manning recalled working with Jimmy Page and other giants of the music biz in …

In the early days of the Who, Pete Townshend gave little thought to a solo career. Writing songs for the band, crafting albums, and touring behind them occupied nearly all of his time and mental energy. In 1972, however, he was persuaded to shape Who Came First — a spiritual …

Jakob Nowell, son of late Sublime singer Bradley Nowell, made his official debut as the revived band’s frontman at Coachella last year, and now he’s working with original members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh on a potential new album — which would be the the first from Sublime since 1996’s …

I grew up in a bohemian household in Southern California where icons of the literary, film, and music worlds would often converge. On any given evening, there might be a noted author in our living room reading something they’d just written, or a titan of the fine arts drinking whiskey …

S tep into Samia’s fantasy world and you’ll find an alter ego that looks like her, but is entirely different. She wears a backward baseball cap on top of her long, curly, jet-black hair and sports denim Daisy Dukes. She lives in a balmy, emerald-green wetland. She’s completely unburdened by …