Music

Serj Tankian, frontman of hard rock band System of a Down, will release his memoir Down With the System on May 14, 2024 via Hachette Books. The musician described the tome as an “accidentally hatched philosophical memoir.” “Boom! – I wrote a new book,” Tankian wrote on X, formerly Twitter. …

TikTok‘s prevailing reach within the music industry is extending. On Sunday, Dec. 10, the video app will launch In the Mix, its first-ever live music event, with headlining performances from Cardi B, Niall Horan, Anitta, and Charlie Puth. The event is scheduled to take place at Sloan Park in Mesa, …

Grandaddy return from an over half-decade recording hiatus with “Watercooler,” the first single from the indie rockers’ upcoming album Blu Wav. The album gets its name from combining the genres “bluegrass” and “new wave,” with those two sounds clashing somehow seamlessly on the introductory track, which was accompanied by a …

Do not ask Simon Le Bon — a man whose name literally translates to “Simon, the Good” — why Duran Duran‘s latest album revels in the bad, the gothic, and the macabre. “I’ve got no fucking idea, mate — it wasn’t mine,” he jokes on a Zoom from his home …

Christine McVie’s estate and Pat Benatar have both closed deals to sell rights to their music to the acquisition firm HarbourView Equity Partners, the company tells Rolling Stone. McVie’s estate has sold her stake in Fleetwood Mac’s recorded music, which includes shares in hits like the McVie-sung tracks “Songbird” and …

Dolly Parton will officially launch her Rockstar era with a special “first listen event” for her new rock album, set to screen in movie theaters on Nov. 15. Dolly Parton Rockstar: The Global First Listen Event will offer fans the chance to hear a selection of songs from Parton’s new …

This year’s CMAs will feature a typically stacked lineup of performers. Luke Bryan, Lainey Wilson, and Tanya Tucker, among others, are all set to perform at the awards ceremony, which is at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 8. Those who can’t attend can watch it live on ABC that night …

Daft Punk will not be playing at your house, and they most certainly will not be reuniting next summer for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “This is a rumor and not true,” a rep for the robots tells Rolling Stone. The twosome …

If Tierra Whack didn’t want to be seen, she wouldn’t have made an entire documentary chronicling her rise to fame. But as Cypher will detail upon its Nov. 24 release on Hulu and in select theaters, fame requires adjustment and balance, and with that comes a type of visibility that …

Brockhampton founder Kevin Abstract has shared another new song, “Running Out,” from his upcoming solo album, Blanket, out Nov. 3. The song finds Abstract continuing to explore the contours of indie and alternative rock, with a simmering lo-fi guitar riff that gives way to the uneasy keen of a synth. …