Music

The 2025 Grammy Awards were suspiciously great. Beyoncé finally won the coveted Album of the Year award for Cowboy Carter, which also scored Best Country Album and mined the history of Black musicians’ foundational contributions to country music. Chappell Roan and Doechii delivered powerful, moving speeches while accepting Best New …

For John Stamos, Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson “didn’t just soundtrack” his life, the legendary founder of California rock “filled it with color, with wonder, with some of the most unforgettable, emotional, joyful moments I’ve ever known.” Following news of Wilson death at the age of 82, Stamos honored the …

There’s a stunning moment in Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet tour, when she performs the heartbreak anthem “Lie to Girls.” She stands on stage strumming an acoustic guitar, as the crowd sings every word of the ballad: “You don’t have to lie to girls/If they like you, they’ll just lie …

Paul McCartney has paid tribute to Brian Wilson following the death of the Beach Boys’ “musical genius.” “Brian had that mysterious sense of musical genius that made his songs so achingly special,” McCartney wrote on social media Thursday, the morning after Wilson’s death was announced. “The notes he heard in …

Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage Sean Combs’ ex-girlfriend finished her testimony Thursday after six days on the witness stand and faced intense questioning over the night in January 2024 when she allegedly found herself in a Las Vegas hotel room with another world-famous rapper, a male escort, …

P ut your arms in and get your chest below the water … just breathe in and out, super slowly.… You’re doing great. Like, damn … we’ve got 20 seconds left. Want to keep going? I’m in the private suite of a swanky spa in Central London one morning in …

Things have never been easy for Metallica’s 1996 album Load, a multiplatinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band’s most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a “good problem”: how to follow up The Black Album, the 1991 smash that turned them from metal heroes into global …

A few years ago, Jim James got to witness Brian Wilson‘s magic in realtime. They were in the studio together recording “Right Where I Belong,” a song from the documentary film Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road. The record turned out to be the last original song Wilson would release in …

Twenty One Pilots ping-pong between pop, rap, emo, and drumline practice on their new single, “The Contract,” changing styles about every 21 seconds. The song and its total sensory assault will feature on the group’s upcoming album, Breach, due out in September. The video features a cult of red-eyed goons …

T hree years ago, in the spring of 2022, Nate Amos and Rachel Brown went on their first tour together as Water From Your Eyes. No one knew their experimental avant-pop music yet, money was scarce, and Amos was in his first year of sobriety. Also, they were exes who …