Music Features

When Nickelback‘s Get Rollin’ tour hit Nashville last year, the Canadian rock stars went all out — and Nashville gleefully rolled out the red carpet for them in return. Their headlining gig at Bridgestone Arena was full of special guests, many of whom grew up listening to the massive — …

The Red Clay Strays are arguably the hottest new act on the scene when it comes to Americana and rock music, but despite their ripping electric guitars and rockabilly swagger, the Alabama band are often classified as country. Lead singer Brandon Coleman can’t seem to figure out why. “I don’t …

Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week Rauw Alejandro enlists Bad Bunny to lure a past lover into another rendezvous, Shawn Mendes shares the intricacies of his quarter-life crisis, and FKA Twigs offers an explosive …

Some lessons need to be learned over and over again. When Bob Dylan and the Beatles broke through in the Sixties, they paved the way for generations of artists to write their own songs. But by the early 2000s, the charts had been largely reclaimed by pro songwriters and svengali …

The border is never far from Alex E. Chávez’s mind. The musician, writer, and professor — known for his work with the Chicago band Dos Santos — has long immersed himself in thinking and scholarship around the complexities of migration. His latest project, his debut album, Sonorous Present, goes deep, …

In the early Eighties, Charles Thompson was such a swell, upstanding, likable young man that his high school teachers recognized him with “a funny little dinky award” declaring him “Teenager of the Year.” “I wasn’t that great at school, but they liked me,” Thompson, who’s better known as Pixies frontman …

By any measure, Cain’s Ballroom should be too small for Charley Crockett. But on a sweltering August night — when the Oklahoma heat and humidity gave the air conditioning system of Tulsa’s timeless honky-tonk a battle for the ages — Crockett didn’t get caught up with the size of the …

Strange but true: The Beatles’ American record company decided not to release their albums. Instead, Capitol chopped them up to generate more product. Nobody at the label had any idea that future generations would revere these records as sacred artistic units. No, Capitol just wanted to squeeze more funny paper …

Young Thug is free — sort of. Last week, the Atlanta-born rapper accepted a plea deal in the sprawling RICO case against him and associates of his YSL record label. As part of the plea, he agreed to 15 years of probation with 20 years of prison time backloaded, meaning …

Few artists debut with a shout-out from the World Health Organization, but Big Ocean isn’t your ordinary K-pop group. When they launched their career almost seven months ago on Korea’s Day of People with Disabilities, Hyunjin, Chanyeon, and Jiseok made history as the first deaf K-pop group. On a late …