Music

Heavy music’s post-lockdown resurgence launched groups like Turnstile and Knocked Loose from VFW halls and church basements into major festivals and arenas. Jesus Piece is next up to make that leap with their new LP, …So Unknown. The group has been busy in the years since the release of their …

Last week, Netflix premiered the first six episodes of La Firma, the highly anticipated series in which the biggest names in urbano — and the major executives behind them — search for the next Latin superstar. Twelve hopeful artists from across Latin America and the U.S. have to impress a …

Smashing Pumpkins‘ new “Empires” video essentially serves as a teaser for their upcoming The World Is a Vampire tour. In his finest Nosferatu attire, Billy Corgan bleats about the beginnings and ends of empires while playing an elastic heavy-metal guitar riff onstage. “You know that zero is one more than …

Metallica continued their residency on Jimmy Kimmel Live with a raucous, eight-minute rendition of their 1986 song “Master of Puppets.” The metal band, performing a four-night stint on the late-night show, gave the hard-hitting song its full due on the Kimmel stage. The live rendition of “Master of Puppets” follows …

PresidentJoe Bidenappointed Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga and producerBruce Cohen (American Beauty, Silver Linings Playbook)as co-chairs of the revived President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities on Thursday. The board includesa panel of of members that, per the White House, include “prominent artists, scholars, and philanthropists who have demonstrated a …

Coachella has revealed the set times for the upcoming festival, which takes place over three days. In a tweet the festival wrote, “Take off your pants and jacket” along with the times in reference to the fact that Blink-182 has now joined the lineup for Friday night. The performance will …

Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few …

The eighth annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure benefit concert hosted by Sammy Hagar and Bob Weir will make its return to the Fillmore in San Francisco for the first time in three years on May 13. Hagar and Weir lead the performance lineup for the third time, with additional appearances from Michael Anthony, …

Paul Simon will release a new composition, Seven Psalms, this spring. The seven-movement work, which finds him playing acoustic instruments and drawing lyrical inspiration from King David’s Psalms, came to him one night in a dream in 2019, and it formulated over several more nights between the hours of 3:30 …

During each night of his solo acoustic tour, John Mayer switches up the setlist. This past weekend during a show in Sacramento, California, the singer and songwriter reached back a decade and performed “Paper Doll” from his 2013 album Paradise Valley. Reflecting on the record’s tone, which has long been …