Music Features

Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, FKA Twigs surrenders to the darkness of the dance floor, Central Cee proves his greatness on debut LP, and Tate McRae takes the driver seat in a sleek …

W hen Hannah Bahng arrives at Chicago’s Millennium Park, she makes a beeline for Cloud Gate — the massive, 33-foot-high, 110-ton public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor that is known colloquially as the Bean. Bundled up in baggy everything, the singer-songwriter examines the Bean from multiple angles before picking a …

It’s so fitting that Garth Hudson was the last man standing from the Band. The beloved organ virtuoso died on Tuesday morning at 87, near Woodstock, New York — just a few miles down the road from Big Pink, the house where the Band and Bob Dylan transformed music history …

I ’m looking for the black Range Rover with the glittery pink license-plate frame. It’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and the passenger pickup at LAX is packed and lawless. When the SUV pulls up, Addison Rae is behind the wheel in a striped pinafore with nothing underneath it but black …

For Scott Avett, the bad news arrived with dinner. In early December, the co-founder of the Avett Brothers and his wife were in their favorite restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina. Just a few weeks earlier, Swept Away — a musical based on an early Avett Brothers album that included all …

When the news of Garth Hudson‘s death hit on Tuesday morning, many thoughts flooded my mind all at once. I thought of the sad reality that all five original members of the Band are no longer among the living, the sorrow that Hudson faced watching his bandmates battle addiction and …

Garth Hudson’s death at age 87 has left fans of the Band grieving. With this loss, none of the five musicians who made everything from ‘Music From Big Pink’ to ‘The Last Waltz’ are still living. “It’s the kind of thing that makes you really want to believe in a …

A video of the Highwaymen appearing on a talk show in 1991 has been making the rounds on social media since the 2024 presidential election, not because of any song they sang, but because of what they said. At least three members of the country supergroup called out the good …

Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-Z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy …

A s soon as he answered his phone, Clayton Carmen knew he was getting bad news. It was March 2024, and by then, nearly a decade had passed since he had seen his father, Eric Carmen — the power-pop trailblazer and Raspberries frontman best remembered for the hits “Go All …