Music Features

Back in the Eighties and Nineties, the release of a major rock star memoir was a fairly uncommon event. Noteworthy ones like George Harrison’s I, Me, Mine (1980), Iggy Pop’s I Need More (1982), and David Lee Roth’s Crazy From the Heat (1997) popped up every once in a while, …

The first few seconds of Marwan Moussa’s song “3AMEL EH” open with an interaction between the rapper and a voice that seemingly belongs to his therapist. The therapist can be heard asking the 30-year-old Egyptian artist about his feelings. Moussa responds by asking her to dim the lights so he …

The Katy Perry who last toured eight years ago was a much different person than the Katy Perry hitting the road this year. Yes, she got engaged to Orlando Bloom, and gave birth to their daughter, Daisy, who’s now four. She judged American Idol for seven seasons, dropped two albums, …

It’s about to be a holiday from real: Jack’s Mannequin is back. Singer Andrew McMahon has announced the band’s first full-length U.S. tour in 10 years. The MFEO Tour (named for their 2005 song of the same name, where it stands for “Made for Each Other”) will kick off in …

When word came out that Timothée Chalamet was pulling double duty as both the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, the obvious assumption was he’d perform a couple of familiar Bob Dylan songs that appear in A Complete Unknown and its soundtrack album. After all, this appearance was …

Earlier this month, we published an extensive profile of Eric Carmen that delved into the brilliant music and complicated private life of the pop visionary, who died in March 2024. It touched upon Carmen’s childhood in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, the rise of his power-pop group the Raspberries, their …

“We’re fixing to do something that I’m never going to do again on this tour. This is going to be the only time this might ever happen in my career, actually,” Jelly Roll told the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena last year, one day before Halloween. He had …

After 15 years, two months, and 30 days, Cross Canadian Ragweed’s hiatus is over. The Oklahoma four-piece, whose mid-2000s heyday laid the groundwork for the current surge in popularity of Red Dirt music, reunited to play six songs late Thursday, closing down the main stage on a cold night at …

People always ask Neko Case how she writes her songs. She can’t explain it — some are “grim chores,” others seem “like they just fell out of a pocket of a coat I haven’t worn in a while.” But, as Case — a singer-songwriter known for her clarion voice and …

There’s something about Bruce Springsteen that breeds a certain kind of fanaticism. Men and women with jobs, children, and real adult responsibilities lose their minds whenever he goes on tour and spend a ludicrous amount of time and energy following him all across the globe, even if it means hearing …