Music Features

Depending on your generation, you probably had a different reaction to the news that the Sam Goody record store chain may be down to just one store, in Oregon, as of next year. If that was a shrug or blank stare, we hear you: The once-mighty stores peaked two or …

Off a residential street deep in the south of Austin, behind a light-up sign that says “South Austin: Still Weird,” sits a cozy, rambler-style watering hole called the Far Out Lounge. An on-and-off spot for live music starting in the early 1900s, the bar got a new life five years …

Earlier this week, Bruce Springsteen‘s public relations team sent out a press release that summed up the major events of the year. It focused on the continuation of his Letter To You world tour, including his triumphant Sea.Hear.Now headlining set in Asbury Park, New Jersey, the acclaimed documentary Road Diary: …

Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, SZA finally unveils her SOS deluxe Lana, Burna Boy shares the exciting first offering from his just-announced eighth album, and J. Cole delivers a previously unreleased 2014 Forest …

Radiohead have had a spy in their midst for years. As his excellent new book, How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead, reveals, bassist Colin Greenwood has been snapping candid, lovely photographs of his bandmates since the early 2000s — in the studio, in dressing rooms, and even, somehow, onstage …

T he night sky over New Zealand is wide and wondrous, inky and vast. It’s the type of sky that broadcasts Earth’s infinitesimal place in the infinite cosmos. The type of sky that fills one with awe at the beauty and mystery of existence. The type that brings to mind …

Last month, the night before the 2025 Grammy nominations were announced, Madison Beer was playing Fortnite with nine of her friends. They were absolutely convinced her seductive stunner “Make You Mine” was going to get nominated, but she didn’t want to get her hopes up — even though she’d already …

One of the most intriguing and little-known corners of the music industry’s vast, seedy underbelly centers around a bunch of rare records released between 1976 and 1978 for one purpose only: scamming the IRS. During this two-year period, a mix of crafty and bumbling crooks took advantage of a tax …

In 2007, Kate Nash released a hit song about a gradually decaying relationship. Until Nov. 21 of this year, the lyrics to “Foundations” might as well have described the pop singer’s own worn-out connection with the live music industry, whose high production costs were literally putting her in debt. So …

Taylor Swift felt the fatigue start to settle in at the end of her 1989 tour. “I think I should take some time off,” the singer-songwriter told NME a few weeks before the 53-show international run concluded in December 2015. “I think people might need a break from me.” At …