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Bear Rinehart is used to fronting his rock band Needtobreathe in large arenas. But on this November day, he’s playing a small open-air stage as a solo artist, with an intimate audience of a couple hundred at the Highlands Food & Wine Festival, an upscale gathering in the mountains of …

In the summer of 2004, Kevin Barnes was in need of some encouragement. After eight years and six albums, their Athens, Georgia-based indie band, Of Montreal, was just beginning to put together an audience. Barnes, newly married with a baby on the way, wasn’t sure it made sense to keep …

You’d be forgiven for thinking Ye’s antisemitic tirade over the weekend — in which he expressed admiration for Hitler, literally called himself a Nazi, praised Diddy, and took out a Super Bowl ad pointing to a web store selling swastika t-shirts — was the reason his X account was deactivated …

Last November, when the Kentucky band Knocked Loose playedJimmy Kimmel Live!,it looked more like something out of a punk festival such as Riot Fest or Sound and Fury than late-night TV. Frontman Bryan Garris let out a mighty pig squeal as guest vocalist Poppy thrashed and screamed across the stage, …

2004’s A Ghost Is Born has a key place in Wilco’s mythology. Recorded at a time of personal turmoil for singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy, it’s the first album they made after 2002’s era-defining, ante-upping Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, with all the expectations that came with that moment. For fans at the time, …

“We had a blast — and you were the blasters!” Paul McCartney told the crowd at the end of his surprise Tuesday show in New York City. McCartney played a spontaneous gig at the Bowery Ballroom, a beloved rock bar on the Lower East Side that holds only 575 people. …

Many people grew up with the music of the Village People, but Jonathan Belolo literally did. His father co-founded the disco group in 1977, and the younger Belolo was immersed in the band’s history, even once joining them onstage as a toddler. But as he watched from behind the stage …

I t could have been a party. At around two in the afternoon on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, Doug Jones was making business calls from his room in Buenos Aires’ upscale CasaSur Palermo Hotel when clanging, banging, and whooping sounds erupted across the hall. “I heard some really bizarre noises, …

When Jon Batiste performed the national anthem in front of millions of Americans watching the Super Bowl LIX broadcast from New Orleans’ Superdome, he paid homage to generations both past and present on the hallowed stage. For the first time in the NFL’s championship history, Batiste weaved a sample into …

The Cross Canadian Ragweed comeback is expanding to Texas. The Red Dirt pioneers, along with co-headliners Turnpike Troubadours, are bringing their Boys From Oklahoma showcase to McLane Stadium in Waco, on the campus of Baylor University, on August 23. Ragweed and Turnpike — who confirmed the details to Rolling Stone …