Music

Farm Aid is coming to the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, on September 23 with a bill that includes board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, and Margo Price alongside Bob Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson, …

A Michigan jury has decided that a document written by Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid will, The Detroit Free Press reports. The decision is a major victory for Franklin’s youngest son, Kecalf, who’d been arguing in favor of the couch document’s …

Producer/engineer Glyn Johns recorded the whole of the Let It Be sessions for the Beatles in 1969, and mixed a raw version of the album that wouldn’t be released for another 52 years — so he’s far from a fan of the Phil Spector-embellished album that came out in 1970. …

The 2023 Global Citizen Festival is around the corner. On Tuesday, the charity-run music event announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms. Lauryn Hill will headline this year’s iteration of the festival, scheduled for Sept. 23. Pop singer Conan Gray, rapper Megan Thee Stallion, and K-pop boy band Stray …

At this point, Swifties have mastered navigating Ticketmaster. They know what time to log on to enter the waiting room before joining the queue, they know what device refreshes the fastest to increase their chances, and they know when and when not to refresh the page to buy tickets. But …

W hen Ray Johnson finally woke up, he had no idea why he was in the ICU. “Tell me I didn’t crash my car I just bought,” Johnson, now 22, remembers telling his dad. But the next day, Johnson’s parents gathered their son with his friend Kurtis Stitt and told …

The discourse around fans throwing objects at artists during concerts feels never-ending. Just when we were done talking about Bebe Rexha getting hit in the face with a cell phone during one of her shows, someone threw their mother’s ashes on stage during one of Pink’s sets. Then Kelsea Ballerini …

Barbie arrives next week on July 21, and the titular character (Margot Robbie) appears to be longing for something more than her picture-perfect Barbieland and dreamhouse can offer, as the new teaser showcases. It also gives the first taste of Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” “We made this …

Every track on My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross feels like a Greek statue frozen in some tragic visage of horror. Anohni‘s voice sounds delicate, angry, and exhausted, as she grieves track by track — for the unfulfilled promises of civil rights, for friends lost to drugs …

Jack White‘s ever-growing shit list just got longer. The musician posted a series of photos on Instagram that picture former president Donald Trump with different celebrities, including Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg. White called out all the photographed parties for “normalizing” Trump in his caption. “Anybody who ‘normalizes’ or treats …