Music

Carsie Blanton needed to say farewell to her guitar. The singer-songwriter was somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean sea on a sailboat last week when the 10-person crew decided to play some music. They passed around the guitar, sang a song or two, including Blanton’s “Little Flame” (sample lyric: “Prison cells/Freedom …

Zayn and Jisoo fly past Saturn and fall for each other on their new single, “Eyes Closed.” On Friday, the Blackpink superstar and former One Direction heartthrob teamed up for the dreamy duet, which dropped alongside an otherworldly video. In the sleek visual, Zayn and Jisoo float through a spaceship, …

For all of its convenience, streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music have introduced a brutal kind of efficiency to how we listen to music. Algorithms prune and shear outliers, molding our tastes into perfectly symmetrical vectors filled with the same familiar superstars — Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Drake (still). …

Haim have dropped a meditative new song, “Tie You Down,” featuring Bon Iver. The emotionally-wrought track will appear on the deluxe version of the group’s most recent album, I Quit, set to arrive on Oct. 17. “we had to,” Haim teased on Instagram earlier this week. “new song tie you …

MTV UK will stop showing rolling music videos when it shutters its five channels at the end of the year, according to reports. TheBBCclaims that MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live will all stop broadcasting after December 31, but MTV’s flagship channel, MTV HD, will …

Madison Beer has dropped a new single, “Bittersweet.” The pensive track follows her recent release “Yes, Baby,” which she shared in September. “Now that it’s over, you blame it all on me,” she croons on the song. “I know I should be bitter, but baby/Right now I’m bittersweet/ I’m getting …

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn named Peacemaker‘s season two finale “Full Nelson” for the craziest possible reason: He recruited the actual band Nelson — ultra-blonde twin brothers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, who reigned over MTV in 1990 with the Number One hit “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection” —to …

A new Elvis Presley concert film, directed by Baz Luhrmann and featuring a trove of previously unreleased footage and recordings, is set to hit theaters in 2026, Variety reports. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is centered largely around recently discovered video of Presley’s famous 1970 Las Vegas residency and his …

Rachel Chinouriri only recently started penning love songs that capture emotions as intense as the ones that show up across her debut album What a Devastating Turn of Events. Her latest EP, Little House, is full of them, from “Can We Talk About Isaac?” and “Indigo” to “What a Life.” …

Sombr fulfilled a childhood dream during his sold-out hometown show at New York’s Pier 17 on Thursday, Oct. 9. The 20-year-old musician welcomed special guest Sam Smith to the stage to perform the In the Lonely Hour single “I’m Not the Only One.” The duet brought Sombr together with an …