Music

We are living in the golden age of the rock biopic. Until very recently, films like The Doors, Ray, Walk the Line, and Love and Mercy popped up only once every few years. But in roughly the past half-decade alone, we’ve seen Bohemian Rhapsody, Bob Marley: One Love, Back to …

Seated behind his organ at Stax Records’ recording studio in Memphis in the Sixties, Booker T. Jones was a first-hand witness to musical history. As part of Booker T. and the MG’s, Stax’s house band, Jones played on soul landmarks by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas and especially Sam …

Miley Cyrus, whose home in Malibu burned down in a wildfire in 2018, wrote that her “soul aches” for those impacted by the blazes currently sprawling the Los Angeles area. On Instagram Cyrus re-posted an image of the charred remains of her Malibu house, which burned down in the Woolsey …

Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to Sam Moore — a musical influence, friend, and collaborator to the E Street rocker — following the death of the soul legend Friday at the age of 89. “Over on E Street, we are heartbroken to hear of the death of Sam Moore, one of …

Paris Hilton is offering a helping hand to families, like hers, who lost their homes to the Los Angeles fires. On Friday, the Infinite Icon singer pledged $100,000 to help families affected by the disastrous fires via the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), promising to match up to $100,000 in …

Sam Moore, one half of beloved soul duo Sam and Dave, died Friday morning at his home in Coral Gables, Fla. at the age of 89. Moore’s wife and manager, Joyce Moore, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. Moore had had unspecified surgery earlier in the week, Joyce tells …

Ethel Cain appeared to share her thoughts about the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last month. In a series of Instagram Story posts on Friday, the musician used the hashtag “#KillMoreCEOs” in response to a post about money in politics being “the root of our dysfunction.” The original post, …

The same day the Beatles took the stage for what would be their final live concert in front of paying fans, the Fab Four were approached by a tall figure with a baritone voice. It was the Man in Black, in attendance that Aug. 29, 1966, at San Francisco’s Candlestick …

“We all do things that we wish we hadn’t done,” Alex Kapranos purrs at the end of the new Franz Ferdinand album, but it sounds like his regrets are too few to mention. The Scottish mod rogues are back with their best album in 15 years, a resurgence for the …

Following the death of Sam Moore, many of the artists inspired by the Sam and Dave singer turned to social media to pay tribute to the soul legend. “RIP Sam Moore. One of the last of the great Soul Men,” Steven Van Zandt wrote. “Him and Dave Prater were the …