Music

When global audiences think about the most exciting acts from South Korea, their minds likely go first to blockbuster pop phenomenons like BTS and Blackpink. But there’s a thriving underground scene taking shape in Seoul, too, led by groups like Balming Tiger — a multimember, wildly eclectic-sounding collective that made …

Niall Horan is spreading the Irish cheer for St. Patrick’s Day in D.C. On Friday, the “Heaven” singer showed up at the White House for a special celebration of the Irish holiday, alongside President Joe Biden. From the White House’s East Room, Horan performed his new single “Heaven,” along with …

It’s well after midnight somewhere off the coast of Florida, and Mojo Nixon is leading a cruise ship full of lubricated and rowdy country-music fans in a bawdy singalong of a song titled “Tie My Pecker to My Leg.” We won’t get into the lyrics here, but the verses touch …

How do we measure the impact of a musician in 2023? Streams can be bought. Awards can be finessed. Is it when demand for show tickets leads to a congressional hearing about Ticketmaster’s policies? Or when flight attendants shout out a fanbase making a pilgrimage to see a tour opener? …

After a months-long tour that found him playing venues from Brooklyn to Boston with Vandoliers, slaying crowds aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise, and returning to the Grand Ole Opry stage, Joshua Ray Walker made his CBS Saturday Morning debut this weekend. The Dallas, Texas, songwriter delivered three songs off his …

Whether or not Robert Smith intended it, the Cure’s ticketing on-sale this week became a worthy case study for anyone to learn about all the efforts, and the complications, that come with making the ticketing marketplace a more equitable experience for fans. Readying its first U.S. tour in seven years, …

And then it was Friday. The arrival of the weekend coincided with St. Patrick’s Day to bring a huge influx of revelers to downtown Austin last night, as it does most years, leaving long lines of curious folks dressed in green queuing outside previously under-the-radar venues. There was still tons …

A freak thunderstorm that hit Austin around 9 p.m. on Thursday threw off what was shaping up to be SXSW‘s biggest day: All outdoor events after that hour were canceled outright (including some highly anticipated sets, like Lil Yachty at the Moody Amphitheater), while other showcase schedules got all jumbled …

Long Live Coolio, the forthcoming album from the “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper, will be released later this year as the first posthumous project since he died at age 59 last year. The announcement of the record, which will feature material Coolio was working on prior to his death, arrives alongside the …

Leave it to Justin Quiles, Natti Natasha, and Omar Courtz to bring their “A-game” for a club-ready banger. On Thursday, the trio of reggaetón stars released their flirty collaboration “En Bajita.” The song’s video opens with a dream sequence as Quiles and Courtz rap from atop snowy mountains before falling …