Wolf Alice appeared on The Tonight Show to perform “The Last Man on Earth,” an ethereal song that appeared on the band’s most recent album, Blue Weekend. In the clip, the camera circles singer Ellie Rowsell as she sings the evocative song, backed by a small choir and the rest …
Read More »Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding Lead Newport Jazz Festival Lineup
Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, and Angelique Kidjo’s Remain inLight are among the artists set to perform the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which takes place at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island July 29 through July 31. The lineup also includes the Fearless Flyers, Terence Blanchard, PJ Morton, the …
Read More »Watch Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos Play a Gritty 'Gimme Shelter' in 1992
Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos have essentially been dormant for the past three decades, but they briefly came back to life earlier this month to perform three songs at the Love Rocks benefit in New York City. Richards has been on the interview circuit promoting the re-release of the …
Read More »Koffee Reinvigorates Reggae for a Pop Audience on 'Gifted'
Koffee has only had about a dozen of her songs widely available to stream until now, but the 22-year-old Jamaican artist is already proving she can reinvigorate reggae and dancehall for a pop audience. Her joyous 2018 smash “Toast” earned her spots on two of Barack Obama’s coveted playlists, and …
Read More »Maren Morris Has Three Words for Twitter Haters. They're Not 'I Love You'
Maren Morris just wanted to take the night off from the stream of online criticism — and worse — that she regularly encounters. Two days after the 2022 ACM Awards where she gave the live debut of “Circles Around This Town,” Morris fired off a tweet at the “turkey-necked fake …
Read More »Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Finneas to Perform Best Original Songs Nominations During Oscars
Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Reba McEntire, and Sebastián Yatra have been tapped to perform this year’s Best Original Songs nominations during the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday. The 94th Oscars will broadcast live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Beyoncé will deliver …
Read More »Watch Jennifer Lopez, John Legend, Jason Aldean Perform at iHeartRadio Music Awards
Jennifer Lopez, Megan Thee Stallion, Jason Aldean, John Legend and Charlie Puth are among the artists who took the stage for the ninth annual iHeartRadio Music Awards. The awards show, which aired live on Fox, was hosted by LL Cool J, who also performed. Lopez was joined by a cast …
Read More »Iceland Airwaves Announces 2022 Return With Metronomy, Arlo Parks
Music festival Iceland Airwaves will return to Reykjavík, Iceland after two years of cancellations due to the Covid pandemic. The annual festival, last held in 2019, has announced it will take place November 2-5 with an initial line-up that includes Arlo Parks, Metronomy, Crack Cloud, and Amyl & the Sniffers. …
Read More »'We're Good With Challenges': Mattiel Take on the World
There are hundreds of colorful lightbulbs behind the stage of the dive-y Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right, winking at the crowd gathered to see rock duo Mattiel. Then, suddenly, the room goes dark and a new image comes up to replace the lights: the projected face of Jeff Goldblum. “He …
Read More »Bauhaus Conjure a Surrealist Post-Punk Dreamscape on First New Song in 14 Years
British post-punk pioneers Bauhaus return with their first new song in over a decade, “Drink the New Wine.” Recorded during lockdown, Bauhaus used the Surrealists’ “exquisite corpse” method to create the song, with each member coming up with a section without seeing what the other’s had done. The band set …
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