Music

Alicia Keys serves as the inspiration for a new musical, Hell’s Kitchen. On Thursday, Keys announced that a musical loosely based on her life and featuring her hits will open at New York’s Public Theater later this year on Nov. 19. The show will tackle “societal issues facing young people …

In August 2020, Instagram influencer Aliza Jane appeared on No Jumper, the massively popular podcast whose content bounces from hip-hop to current events to, more recently, the odd appearance by alt-right polemicists. During her episode, Jane discussed alleged sexual encounters with multiple members of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, and …

Entrepreneur and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has sued the spirits giant Diageo, accusing the company of failing to invest resources into his Ciroc vodka and DeLeon tequila brands — treating them as “urban” products. In a suit filed Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, lawyers for Combs claim Diageo …

Yo La Tengo experienced a full circle career moment on Thursday when Ira Kaplan took the mount at Citi Field to throw the first pitch at a New York Mets game. The group’s name comes from a decades-old story from the team’s 1962 inaugural season when center fielder Richie Ashburn …

Most of the final season of Ted Lasso has arrived with the underlying feeling that no one quite knows how to wrap it up. How does anyone prepare to say goodbye to an endearing ensemble cast that has spent three seasons earnestly championing friendship and teamwork but still has some …

Palehound go full Tony Soprano in the video for “My Evil,” reenacting the show’s iconic opening credits sequence. They drive while chomping on a cigar, stop at the NJ Turnpike turnstile for a ticket (do those even exist anymore?), drive past Pizzaland, and even dine at Holsten’s, the restaurant the …

Paramore might be in the business of misery, but they’re not in the business of fighting. During the band’s first of two sold-out nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Hayley Williams stepped in to address a couple of fans who were pushing and shoving in the general admission pit. …

After visiting the Y2K pop sound with her Krazy Frog-sampling “2 Die 4” on Dirt Femme last year, Tove Lo returns to the era with her earworm single, “‘I like u.” “I wanted to make another dance song that sonically felt like a nod to 90’s and Y2K dance music,” …

Be Your Own Pet break out the bondage gear for their new single, “Worship the Whip,” a track off their newly announced comeback album, Mommy, out Aug. 25. “Mommyis the bitch in charge, the one in control,” frontwoman Jamina Pearl Abegg said in a statement. “It’s a reclamation of myself.” …

Janelle Monáe will hit the road this summer on a North American tour in support of her upcoming album, The Age of Pleasure. The 26-city trek will launch later this summer, kicking off Aug. 30 at the WAMU Theater in Seattle. The run will continue through the fall, wrapping on …