Music

The Weeknd doesn’t usually disappear for long stretches of time. No more than two years separate almost every album he has released since 2011, barring the nearly four-year space between 2016’s Starboy and 2020’s After Hours — but even that saw the release of My Dear Melancholy in 2018. His …

On the engagingly titled “Cuntology 101,” the U.K. duo Lambrini Girls offers a seminar on what it means to be, well, cunty. “Learning how to let go is cunty/Having cum on my shirt is cunty/Sensing boundaries is cunty/Respecting others is cunty,” they offer, over a danced-up electro-punk whirr that would’ve …

More than 50 Nashville-area artists will perform at clubs around the city from noon until 3 o’clock in the morning on Saturday, Feb. 1 — and one single cover charge of 15 bucks gets fans through every door. The campaign is called “615 Indie Live,” and its mission is to …

Julia Michaels doesn’t need giant scissors to cut off this relationship. On Friday, the songwriter joined forces with Maren Morris for “Scissors,” a track about being quite willing to cut things off with an ex. The song’s story might end in a split, but Michaels and Morris’ musical relationship is …

On Thursday evening, backstage in a dressing room at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Peter Rowan is plucking his guitar and quietly humming to himself. With less than an hour before showtime, the singer-songwriter will soon celebrate a band he created more than a half-century ago, one whose influence continues to loom …

The acclaimed and innovative documentary about the incomparable Brian Eno — a theatrical experience where no two screenings were the same — is finally coming to home audiences with a similarly one-of-a-kind twist: A 24-hour livestreaming event. Dubbed 24 Hours of Eno and presented by Film First and director Gary …

Taylor Goldsmith is the lead singer and songwriter of Dawes, the L.A. band he started with his brother Griffin in 2007. Until a few days ago, Taylor, Griffin, his parents, and Dawes’ former bassist Wylie Gelber, all lived minutes from each other in Altadena, California. Taylor’s main house is still …

A couple of weeks ago, Bad Bunny was at home, watching Especial Banco Popular, a Puerto Rican show that’s been around for decades and highlights folk music and traditions from the island. The theme of the episode Bad Bunny caught, coincidentally, revolved around someone returning home after time away and …

Aly & AJ were writing “What It Feels Like” — a song about learning to admire “the beauty” of their physical changes — when Aly went into labor with her son Jack. On Friday, the sister duo released the beach rocky single, which hears the empowered sisters celebrate “new life …

Chuck D called on people to stop insensitively pairingLos Angeles wildfirevideos with Public Enemy’s “Burn Hollywood Burn” on social media and educated those misusing the track of the true meaning of the 1990 song. Released on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted group’s Fear of a Black Planet, “Burn …