Music

What is a folk festival to do after becoming a global news story? That was the central question for this year’s Newport Folk Festival, which over the past half-decade has drawn increased attention with a slew of surprise guests, world premieres, and special appearances — from Dolly Parton to Chaka …

Lady Gaga will revive her special “Jazz and Piano” show for a new Las Vegas residency scheduled to kick off later this summer. The 12-concert run will launch Aug. 31 at Dolby Live at Park MGM, with shows scheduled through September and wrapping Oct. 4. Tickets will go on sale …

People who spend all day spewing hate on the internet have mastered the art of being loud and wrong. A subset of that community recently aimed at Hayley Williams following the postponement of several Paramore concerts while she recovered from a non-contagious lung infection. From their perspective, as people who …

After his 2018 album Astroworld, Travis Scott reached a commercial steeple that allowed him to sell candles and McDonalds meals and Forgiatto rims and anything else he wanted to pick up and wail, “It’s lit!” with. He carried that eye for consumerism into his Utopia rollout to middling effect. Even …

Karol G‘s next chapter is on the horizon. The singer has announced that her forthcoming album Mañana Será Bonita (Bichota Season) is on the way. It’ll follow the February release of Mañana Será Bonita, which made history as the first LP from a solo Spanish-language female artist to reach number …

A concertgoer who claims they were struck by Cardi B‘s microphone at the rapper’s Las Vegas show on Saturday has filed a police report, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “On July 30, 2023, an individual came into an LVMPD police station to report a battery,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department …

Music runs through Halle Bailey‘s veins. Before she yearned to be part of your world as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, and before she left her stamp on R&B alongside her older sister as Chloë x Halle, the singer and actress was a little girl with an ambitious and musical …

Okemah, Oklahoma, native Evan Felker plus Jason Isbell’s “King of Oklahoma” equals an only-at-Newport moment. On Saturday, the Turnpike Troubadours leader joined Isbell and the 400 Unit onstage during their Newport Folk Festival main-stage set to sing lead on both verses of “King of Oklahoma,” a highlight of Isbell’s latest …

Eight months after Kanye West was banished from Twitter, the rapper’s now-X account was quietly reactivated this weekend. “Something special coming soon,” Musk tweeted (xeeted?) Saturday, without elaboration. In what may be a coincidence or indeed that special something, Ye’s account was reactivated hours later. Most of the offending Dec. …

Jason Aldean brought his “Try That in Small Town” to another big city Saturday — this time, Boston, Massachusetts — with the singer using a three-minute diatribe prior to the song’s performance to try and thread a needle between his controversial song and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. “I was …