Music

Dua Lipa welcomed Crowded House frontman Neil Finn to the stage in Auckland, New Zealand, for a lively cover of the band’s 1986 song “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” The show, at Auckland’s Spark Arena on Friday night, marked the finale of the Australia and New Zealand leg of Lipa’s Radical …

The three-decade history of Blink-182 is marked by epic highs and miserable lows. At the peak of their popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, they were selling out arenas all over the globe and scoring hits like “What’s My Age Again” and “All the Small Things.” But there …

PinkPantheress‘ debut mixtape, To Hell With It, was a snapshot of a moment in time for the musician. She was 20 years old when it arrived in 2021 amidst the storm of her first taste of virality, with famously brief cuts like “Pain” and “Just for Me” dominating TikTok. When …

Clem Burke, the longtime drummer for Blondie who played a key role in the New Wave movement and appeared on albums by Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, and Bob Dylan, died Sunday at the age of 70. “It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our …

Every year that passes, the list of Bad Bunny’s accomplishments gets longer. Today, he scratches off a big one that fans have been requesting for a very long time: NPR’s Tiny Desk. On Monday, NPR dropped the long-awaited Bad Bunny episode of their popular series. A casual search of “bad …

Over the last two decades, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon has become a stalwart of the indie music scene. Since the release of his revered 2007 debut For Emma, Forever Ago – a cult-classic isolation record composed by a heartbroken Vernon in a cabin in the Wisconsin woods – the musician …

Elton John and Brandi Carlile teamed up on Saturday Night Live to perform a pair of tracks from their collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels, which came out Friday. For the ’50s rock and roll-inspired “Little Richard’s Bible” and for the title track from their latest collaboration, John was at …

“There’s a band playing in my head all the time,” Ellis Bullard says. “The real magic is trying to capture what they’re playing and trying to emote it and get it out.” Bullard hails from Austin, where fans in the city’s hardcore honky-tonks like Sam’s Town Point, Sagebrush and White …

When Craig Finn wants to make an L.A. album, he doesn’t mess around. He might be best known as the Minnesota-via-Brooklyn frontman of the Hold Steady, a punk bar-band wordsmith specializing in down-and-out tales with a Midwest flavor. But on his great new Always Been, he takes inspiration from Southern …

Dave Allen, bassist in post-punk band Gang of Four’s core lineup before co-founding the British rock group Shriekback, has died at the age of 69. Allen’s former Gang of Four band mate, drummer Hugh Burnham announced Sunday on social media that the bassist died at his home in Portland, Oregon. …