Music

Rina Sawayama has a few notes following Sabrina Carpenter‘s Saturday Night Live appearance. In an Instagram Story post about the pop star’s performance of “Nobody’s Son,” Sawayama highlighted an evident lack of cultural research behind the studio set, which was inspired by a karate studio and featured tatami mats. “Big …

When the NFL, Roc Nation, and Apple Music announced that Bad Bunny would be the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, the noise started almost immediately. On one side, there were cheers and excitement: His fans recognized the historic nature of the performance, which will go down in the books as …

There are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records — worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic Nebraska is one of those. Conceived at the crest of the Reagan years when the singer was …

Sam Rivers, the founding bassist for Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday. He was 48. The band confirmed the news on social media, though the cause of death was not disclosed. “Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,” Limp Bizkit wrote on Instagram, sharing a photo of Rivers. “Sam …

Two-time Saturday Night Live musical guest Sabrina Carpenter — also the host of Saturday’s show performed two tracks from her seventh and latest album, Man’s Best Friend. Carpenter opened with the lead single “Manchild,” which she co-wrote with Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff and Amy Allen. The pop star, who graced Rolling …

Sabrina Carpenter mocked the controversy over her Man’s Best Friend album cover and fired back at her “horndog pop star” reputation during her Saturday Night Live monologue. “Last time I was here, for the 50th anniversary, I got to sing with Paul Simon, and since then my new album Man’s …

Charley Crockett is making a career out of being underestimated, either by the business or by his very own fans. This past week, he proved that again with a three-night residency at one of Manhattan’s most exclusive and longest-running supper clubs, the Café Carlyle on the Upper East Side. This …

Bruce Springsteen delivered a three-song acoustic set — including a rare performance of “Streets of Philadelphia” — Saturday at the Academy Museum Gala, where the E Street rocker was given the Legacy Award. Taking the stage at the Academy Museum, Springsteen opened with the track that earned him both the …

“I’m a bit of a troublemaker,” says Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows. The self-described atheist is referencing the reaction to a video message he recorded for Israeli hostages Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal, welcoming the two men home after two years in captivity. Gilboa-Dalal, who was 22 when kidnapped by …

Rilo Kiley wrapped up their 2025 reunion tour Saturday at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, where the group welcomed Waxahatchee to the stage for “With Arms Outstretched.” The Katie Crutchfield-led project served as Rilo Kiley’s opening act on the latest West Coast leg of the reunion tour, with Jenny …