Music

This year’s Black Friday Record Store Day had its usual share of curios: a version of Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft with her vocals isolated, Rage Against the Machine’s 2000 set at the Democratic National Convention, a collection of outtakes from Yes’ Fragile, a previously unreleased 1991 Van …

Will Cullen Hart always seemed like he existed outside of time. The beloved Southern musician and visual artist, who died at age 53 on Nov. 29, spent his life writing and recording some of the most stunningly profound, beautifully naïve psychedelic music ever made. He was at the heart of …

Everyone is feeling Wicked these days. The film starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda has inspired memes, plenty of social media discourse, a surprise piano performance from Jeff Goldblum who plays the Wizard of Oz, and Christmas Day singalong screenings. All the fans want to sing …

Kendrick Lamar’s surprise album GNX debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the publication reports, earning him his fifth consecutive chart-topper. The album debuts with 319,000 units in the U.S., according to Luminate. It was boosted by streaming, with more than 379 million on-demand streams of the …

A woman has sued Sean “Diddy” Combs for allegedly threatening to kill her and dangling her over a 17th floor balcony, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan filed a 17-page lawsuit against Combs this week in Los Angeles for sexual battery, infliction of …

For the better part of the past decade-and-a-half, Laura Marling has been releasing albums at a prolific pace, becoming one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters from the British “nu-folk” scene in the process. In 2011, she won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist and was nominated in …

Devon Allman was just 17 years old when Dickey Betts, the late guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, asked him to do something that would change the course of his life. On Oct. 15, 1989, Betts requested the teenager join him and the Allmans onstage that evening at the Sunrise …

Chappell Roan‘s hit single “Good Luck, Babe!” has officially hit the one billion mark on Spotify. The singer shared the news on social media, noting that the song reaching that many streams was “cuckoo loco.” She added, “All I have to say is thank you ♡.” Roan initially dropped “Good …

Will Cullen Hart, a founding member of bands the Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System and a co-founder of the Elephant 6 music collective, died at 53 on Nov. 29 from natural causes. The news was confirmed by Apples in Stereo musician Robert Schneider in a lengthy Facebook post that …

Two years ago, the singer-songwriter Elena Rose was in the studio with her producer Maff and her little sister Cristina “Pichu” Hernández. They were listening to a breezy, beach-like beat that would become the massive hit “Caracas En El 2000,” and Rose was brainstorming lyrics to go along with the …