Music

Since crash-landing into the indie blogosphere two decades ago, Lily Allen’s greatest strength has been her voice — an airy soprano that can communicate disdain with a sighed lyric or an audible eye-roll. It’s helped her stand out even as she’s shape-shifted through genres — and as she’s dealt with …

Today, Steven Van Zandt held his Party at the Pony, a benefit in support of his nonprofit music education organization TeachRock. The star-studded event promised “special appearances from some of Stevie’s Disciples [of Soul] and E Street Band family,” and it delivered with an unannounced appearance from Bruce Springsteen. Held …

From the start, Twenty One Pilots have fostered an inordinately strong bond with their fan base: “We’re Twenty One Pilots and so are you,” Tyler Joseph declares at the end of each show. But at least one devotee took that statement too much to heart, walking away with a piece …

Raye still hasn’t figured out the whereabouts of her soulmate, the premise of her latest single“Where Is My Husband,”but at the very least, she now knows where her stolen car containing her prized songwriting books ended up. Last October, the singer and songwriter indefinitely delayed her second studio album after …

The decade-long wait for Hilary Duff‘s return to the music scene will come to an end sooner than fans think, the actress teased in a recent interview with Variety. “We’re getting something really soon,” she said. “[My fans] are going to hear something so soon, like in the blink of …

There was no shortage of major global events for the weekly news magazines to cover in October 1975. The last smallpox patient on Earth was treated in Bangladesh; Francisco Franco’s dictatorship came to an end in Spain after nearly 40 years; Saturday Night Live hit the NBC airwaves for the …

When Puerto Rican singer iLe was 13, her parents got a divorce. Even though she remained on good terms with both of them, the experience left the future Calle 13 star confused. As she got older, she developed a taste for the torrid, lovelorn boleros that have always occupied a …

When Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz was a student at Columbia in 1969, a new Bob Dylan record titled The Great White Wonder began popping up in record stores. Completely unsanctioned by Bob Dylan or his label, it mixed Basement Tapes material with informal recordings of Dylan during his early …

Vybz Kartel’sfirstconcert in Toronto had a special guest — and performance. During the dancehall musician’s show at Scotiabank Arena Sunday night, hometown hero Drake appeared onstage to play an eight-song set in the middle of Kartel’s show. Drake was spotted on a lower-level balcony, speaking to Kartel on the mainstage …

Anne Hathaway made the trek all the way from Genovia to see Sabrina Carpenter kick off her five-night run at Madison Square Garden in New York. It’s unclear how international law works for fictional countries, but the actress must have been in violation of some rule — so it’s only …