Music

The surviving members of Soundgarden — drummer Matt Cameron, guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Ben Shepherd — reunited onstage Saturday to perform a set of the band’s music at a Seattle benefit concert. Billed as Nudedragons — an anagram for “Soundgarden” — the trio were joined by Seattle-based singer Shaina …

As anyone who’s recently attended a show by Foreigner or Lynyrd Skynyrd knows, it’s become as common as a guitar solo to see a classic rock & roll outfit without any original members in the lineup. But what few may realize is that the template for that concept may have …

The American South is a hot mess of cultural contradictions, and while those contradictions have stoked the dumpster fire of U.S. politics for a couple of centuries, they also happen to be fueling some of the best music being made right now. And to be sure, the story of rock …

Dan Nigro’s emo-inflected ’00s indie band, As Tall As Lions, always hovered on the edge of mass success, but Nigro has since decided they were missing one thing: a great producer. “I always wish that I had somebody when I was younger that just helped shift me a little bit,” …

He’s not Mariah Carey, but Paul McCartney has his own way of heralding in the holiday season, which he did with a rare performance of “Wonderful Christmastime” at his Manchester concert Saturday. McCartney and his band were joined by a group of kids from the You Should Be Dancing Theatre …

Drake awarded $10,000 to a fan who won a lookalike competition thrown in his honor. Organized by Casuals Cakery, the contest was held on Saturday in the rapper’s hometown of Toronto. Prior to the event, Drake apparently got word of the competition taking place and hit up the bakery to …

“I don’t drink/never been drunk at all,” Waylon Wyatt sings in his song “O.D.” And for good reason: The Hackett, Arkansas, native is all of 18. But Wyatt also understands exactly who he’s singing to. “I know that my music appeals to a younger audience, so I felt like adding …

Metallica staged their annual Helping Hands benefit concert Friday night in Los Angeles, with the heavy metal legends delivering a set full of long-unplayed songs, covers, and classics across their acoustic-and-electric sets. The concert at Inglewood, California’s YouTube Theater opened with an acoustic take on “Low Man’s Lyric,” marking the …

Blink-182 guitarist and UFO enthusiast Tom DeLonge has weighed in on the rash of mystery drones seen in the New Jersey sky over the past week. “The drones that are being discussed, can hover for six hours, and then disappear once they are spotted. This is why it’s been hard …

Billie Eilish was hit in the face by an object that looks to be a blue bracelet while performing in Glendale, Arizona on Friday. There has been a growing number of disturbing incidents where concertgoers have been throwing things at artists while they perform onstage, which can be dangerous and …