Music

Let’s raise a birthday toast to Bob Seger, who turns 80 today. He might be the only great American rock star who likes everybody in his songs. He’s not judging anyone in “Fire Down Below.” He hopes his crooked friend in “Still The Same” keeps getting away with it. He’s …

Michelada Fest is canceling its 2025 edition. On Tuesday, the Chicago-based festival, scheduled for mid-July, announced it will not go forward with its event due to visa issues affecting Mexican corrido artists under the Trump administration. “Due to the uncertainty surrounding artist visas and the rapidly changing political climate, we’re …

Pierce the Veil turn up the heat on their latest single “Kiss Me Now,” an urgent ode to seizing the moment. The record arrives alongside a visualizer featuring two ice sculptures in the shape of two lovers locked in each other’s embrace. As the song progresses, with quickening guitar licks …

Four women have accused Smokey Robinson of sexually harassing and repeatedly raping them while they worked as housekeepers for the Motown icon and his wife at various times going back to 2007. In a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles, the women allege the soul singer and producer would …

Turn-of-the-millennium indie favorites Grandaddy have announced their first North American tour in 20 years. The fall trek will find the group not only supporting their 2024 album, Blu Wav, but celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic 2000 album, The Sophtware Slump. The tour kicks off Sept. 11 at the …

Jake and Elwood are back! On Tuesday, the family of The Blues Brothers‘Dan Aykroydand the lateJudy Belushi-Pisano‘s estateannounced they are releasing a graphic novel inspired by the group, called The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake, on Oct. 7. Stella Aykroyd, Luke Pisano, and James Werner co-wrote the book, …

Soundgarden are seen as a quintessential Nineties band, but they actually formed in 1984, and started releasing music three years later. That means they’ve been eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2012. Fans started giving up hope after they appeared on two ballots prior …

Morrissey will resume his North American tour tonight, May 5, after postponing a pair of shows due to health issues. A note shared on the musician’s Instagram yesterday said that the former Smiths frontman had “contracted a severe sinusitis attack and was treated at Coronado Hospital in San Diego.” The …

Labrinth locks in on his latest single “S.W.M.F.” The record arrives alongside an intense music video directed by Brendan Walter. The visual, which finds the musician coated in glitter in some scenes and slipping into madness in others, captures him in moments of inner turmoil that give way to bolstered …

As Alex Van Halen told Rolling Stone last fall, a tour reuniting the drummer and David Lee Roth didn’t come to fruition after Eddie Van Halen’s death in 2020. But at the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, Maryland, Saturday night, Van Halen fans were accorded the next best thing: Roth’s …