Music

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 …

Earlier this month, a woman named Katelynn Smoot shared a heartwarming video of her young daughter, who is battling cancer, watching the music video for Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia.” In the clip, little Lilah points at the screen and says, “That’s my friend!” The video quickly went viral, …

Reneé Rapp knows how to let her voice loose with an R&B song. On Friday, the singer joined the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and continued the spot’s tradition of surprise covers with a rendition of SZA‘s “Good Days.” Rapp was backed by a pair of soothing acoustic guitars and …

In the mid-1980s, when Charley Pride was in between record contracts, he went into a Dallas studio with an all-star cast of area musicians to record a series of songs by Brook Benton. He intended to turn the project into a tribute album to the R&B mainstay and “Rainy Night …

Charlie Puth’s Blue Note residencies jumped from New York City to Los Angeles this week, and in Tinseltown, he welcomed a surprise celebrity guest to the stage: Actor and jazz pianist Jeff Goldblum. “I love to give a new up-and-coming singer a chance,” Puth quipped prior to welcoming Goldblum to …

Slipknot have filed a lawsuit against the anonymous owner of the Slipknot.com domain in an attempt to reclaim the website, which is currently used to sell counterfeit band merchandise. For nearly 25 years, the anonymous cyber-squatter has sat on the Slipknot URL, forcing the actual Slipknot to instead make Slipknot1.com …

Fresh off his Mercury Prize win, Sam Fender has shared a new song, “Talk to You,” which features Elton John on piano. The Marcus Dravs-produced track comes off on the forthcoming deluxe edition of Fender’s LP,People Watching, which is set to be released on Dec. 5 via Capitol Records. “‘Talk …

They Are Gutting a Body of Water have been one of the most crucial American shoegaze bands over the past decade, from the DIY neo-shoegaze hotbed of Philadelphia. Douglas Dulgarian began making noise as TAGABOW in 2017, playing house shows and releasing early cassettes like 2017’s Sweater Curse. But the …

Foo Fighters seemingly shared clip of a new song on Instagram last night. The short video features an image of a green bird sitting on a stack of amps in front of the rock band’s logo. The caption notes that the group is “About to take flight…” The band has …

Throughout the Radical Optimism tour, Dua Lipa has used the surprise song section of her set to celebrate local legends with city-specific covers — and on occasion has brought them out to perform with her. In New York, she got soulful with Lenny Kravitz for “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s …