Music

Most of the arenas Niall Horan has booked out on The Show: Live on Tour, in support of his third studio album The Show, he first performed in with his four One Direction bandmates by his side. On Tuesday evening, he headlined Manchester’s AO Arena, more than a decade after …

Jack Antonoff has almost single-handedly made modern pop into a glorious safe space, an expansive, sensitive, creative biosphere where the biggest artists in the world — from Taylor to Lana to Lorde — can chase their wildest ambitions and find their most real inner selves while still making blockbuster records. …

With his Instagram posts of old Thrasher magazine covers, flyers of seminal post-hardcore group Jawbox, and pictures with Neko Case, Matt Jencik is not your stereotypical Taylor Swift target. The 50-year-old, long-haired, bespectacled longtime buyer for Chicago’s legendary Reckless Records admits he’d probably be listening to Van Halen at home. …

A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives aims to overhaul the streaming royalty payment system in an effort to help musicians build more sustainable careers in the digital age. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) introduced the The Living Wage for Musicians Act in the House …

Known more for his horror and action films than the noir genre, filmmaker John Carpenter will embrace his inner Bogie on his upcoming album of soundtracks for movies that don’t exist, Lost Themes No. 4: “Noir.” Of course, he’s doing it his way, as the single, “My Name Is Death,” …

Country is the coolest it’s ever been as Lainey Wilson and Kelly Clarkson share a special duet version of “Country’s Cool Again.” The song appeared on Wilson’s recently released studio album of the same name and came to life on the Kelly Clarkson Show stage. Clarkson’s Kellyoke segment has been …

Zach Bryan opened his Quittin Time Tour Tuesday night in Chicago, where surprise guest Kacey Musgraves joined him onstage for their debut live performance of their duet “I Remember Everything.” While Bryan had performed “I Remember Everything” a couple of times live in 2023, those were all solo, Kacey-less renditions. …

A Los Angeles judge refused to dismiss Cher’s bid for a conservatorship over her adult son Elijah Blue Allman’s finances on Wednesday, instead granting the singer a three-month delay to gather medical records and pursue a private settlement ahead of a new June 11 hearing. Allman, 47, appeared in person …

Zayn Malik‘s next album was a labor of self-love and intention. In a new teaser trailer for the record, which does not yet have a title or release date, the musician opens up about the creative process behind the record and why it was important for him to write it …

Five months after one of Linkin Park’s former bassists sued the band over unpaid royalties connected to their Hybrid Theory reissue, the group’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. In the motion filed Tuesday, Linkin Park’s legal team cited a number of “defects” with Kyle Christner’s lawsuit, most …