Music

T he year was 2000. Y2K came and went, and a group of four childhood best friends had something more important to worry about now: middle school. Would boys like them? Would they be popular? Would they stick together? That summer, they found a way to briefly escape the future. …

Karly Hartzman, the lead singer and songwriter for the band Wednesday, finds inspiration pretty much where she goes. “I’m always just on like a continuous writing mode. I write whenever I get even the slightest feeling. Whenever I feel inspired by something I’m experiencing or remembering or watching or reading, …

Green Day fans in Santiago, Chile got to witness a historic performance on Saturday night. The Billie Joe Armstrong-fronted group revived a catalog classic, “Haushinka,” for the first time in 28 years during a performance at Parque Estadio Nacional. The group snuck in the Nimrod deep cut into the set …

Does Francis Ford Coppola thrive on chaos? Not exactly, the director claims in the new trailer for Megadoc, Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes documentary on the tumultuous making of Coppola’s 2024 film Megalopolis: “I’m confronting chaos.” Coppola spent $120 million of his own money on Megalopolis, a script he’d been working on …

Taylor Swift headlining the Super Bowl halftime show has been one of those things that’s seemed so obvious for so long it’s a shock it hasn’t happened (soft drink sponsorship deals aside, of course). Over the past few years, especially, her name has been bandied about as a likely prospect, …

Kelsea Ballerini is almost like an honorary Jonas sister. Just a handful of years after opening for the group on their 2021 tour, the country star joined Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas for a pair of performances during the group’s show in Dallas on Sunday. “We had the wonderful pleasure …

It appears that all is well between Drake and Bobbi Althoff. The podcast host and content creator went viral in 2023 when Drizzy appeared on her show, The Really Good Podcast, setting off a spree of other rapper interviews — including Lil Yachty, YG, and Offset — as well as …

“As exciting as watching trees sprout” is decidedly a pejorative idiom. Still, it’s somehow the perfect way to describe these elegiac bops. Indeed, Devonté Hynes, on his fifth studio LP as Blood Orange, manages to make life’s contemplative moments seem urgent, celestial, and rehabilitative. No actual trees sprout on the …

Miguel has finally announced his long-awaited fifth album, Caos, with the LP set to arrive Oct. 23 — also the musician’s 40th birthday — via ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records. Along with announcing Caos, Miguel soft-released the album’s new single and title-track. The song hasn’t been given a wide release just yet, …

Cardi B won the debate. And the trial too. A week after going viral for calling her witness-stand interrogation a “debate,” not an “altercation,” the Grammy-winning rapper was handed a resounding victory at her civil trial over claims she physically assaulted a security guard she accused of filming her. Jurors …