Music

To many rap fans forged in the blog era, Wale’s cultural footprint is as well known as the admitted challenges he confronts on the new single “Mirroronnabenz.” With a backdrop where Afrobeat meets hip-hop soul, feeling both characteristic of and evolutionary for the Nigerian-American rapper, “Mirroronnabenz” finds Wale and producer …

If a dystopic voice asking you “to fulfill your mission” of rounding up undocumented immigrants has snuck its way onto your streaming airwaves, you’re far from the only one. In the last month, online users have reported seeing and hearing an increased amount of recruitment advertising from the Department of …

Justin Timberlake has paid tribute to D’Angelo, whose three solo albums —his debut, Brown Sugar, 2000’sVoodoo, and 2014’sBlack Messiah— reshaped the landscape of soul music and helped ignite a new era. Following D’Angelo’s passing on Oct. 14 at 51, Timberlake shared how the visionary’s work impacted his own musical journey …

Janelle Monáeand the Wondaland Arts Society are bringing back her month-long, city-spanning Halloween bash to Los Angeles. Wondaween 2025 kicked off earlier this month with Cinespia, which took place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Oct. 11, and will continue with Monáe Manor at the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride. Monáe …

It was four days after Father’s Day. Midway through the Drive-By Truckers‘ informal late-night acoustic show in their hometown of Athens, Georgia, their 23-year-old guitarist and budding songwriter named Jason Isbell decided to premiere a song he’d just written as a Father’s Day gift for his dad. That song was …

Despite being raised in Nashville, Shooter Jennings is a Los Angeles guy through and through. He started his first rock band, Stargunn, there, embedded himself in the city’s underground arts scene as he evolved as both a solo artist and Grammy-winning producer, and now produces albums at Sunset Sound Recorders, …

Start with the laundry. Of the many times Bob Mould‘s band Sugar unexpectedly found itself at the center of pop culture in the Nineties, one in particular springs to mind for him: a 1992 festival in Belgium where Sugar were on the same bill as Metallica, Neil Young and Crazy …

The audience at the Los Angeles stop on Playboi Carti‘s Antagonist Tour was treated to a hometown surprise when Kendrick Lamar made a surprise appearance. Carti and Lamar performed their collaboration “Good Credit,” which appeared on the Atlanta rapper’s latest album Music. On Instagram, Carti wrote that bringing Lamar out …

Irving Azoff‘s Iconic Artists Group has acquired a stake in the estate of legendary crooner Frank Sinatra. Azoff revealed the news last week while speaking at a Bloomberg conference in Los Angeles, saying that IAG had “recently acquired a chunk of the estate.” Frank Sinatra Enterprises (a joint venture between …

This Is Lorelei is back with a new album (sort of). The New York-based singer-songwriter, a.k.a. Nate Amos, announced today that he’s releasing Holo Boy on Dec. 12 via the esteemed indie label Double Double Whammy. The album is a collection of re-recorded songs from Amos’ early years, originally written …