Music

Alex Van Halen is sharing the last piece of work he made with his late brother, Eddie. On Monday, the musician shared a downloadable version of the instrumental track “Unfinished,” which is featured in the audiobook version of Alex’s new book, Brothers. The six-minute recording, shared on Van Halen‘s website, …

Listeners who tuned into the NTS Radio show Soup to Nuts w/ Anu this afternoon were the first to hear LCD Soundsystem‘s new single “X-Ray Eyes” — and unless others are interested in digging through the show’s broadcast archive, they’ll be the only ones to have heard it. For the …

Jennifer Hudson has a new holiday album out, and with the vocals she slayed (or should we say, sleigh‘ed) on it, she sure deserves her title of “Princess of Christmas!” In a new People interview published Monday, the talk show host celebrated her album The Gift of Love, but rest …

In the late Eighties, Ernst Jorgensen, then an executive at a BMG affiliate in Denmark, raised an impertinent question in an international meeting. “How come we treat the Elvis Presley catalog so poorly?” The response from a U.S. label chief was immediate: “If you’re so smart, why don’t you do …

Don’t ask Thom Yorke about a possible Radiohead reunion. Or if you do, expect the musician refuse to give you a real answer. The frontman spoke to Australia’s Double J, who suggested that Yorke’s “fertile” work on the Smile with guitarist Jonny Greenwood has led fans to assume there might …

Benny The Butcher and 38 Spesh first connected on the word of the late DJ Shay, the producer who Benny and many other members of Buffalo, New York’s Griselda movement called a mentor. Shay’s Parkside Studios was a hub for upstate rappers where Benny recorded most of his early work. …

In pop music, there’s no such phenomenon as a sure thing — except for Kylie. She’s the constant in the equation. One thing you can always count on is the way the dance-floor queen will always step back into our lives with another effortlessly sparkling pop statement in her signature …

Jelly Roll‘s Beautifully Broken is the Number One album in the country, Billboard confirmed on Monday, marking the rapper-turned-country superstar’s first-ever chart-topping album. Beautifully Broken finished its debut week with 161,000 equivalent album units — the artist’s best week to date — and 58.86 million streams. The first week was …

Doctor Lady Gaga is almost ready to see her next batch of patients. “Disease,” the first single from the musician’s forthcoming pop album, is expected to arrive on Friday, Oct. 25 after she teased the record through a cryptic website and playlist. Gaga sent her fans on something of a …

There sure has been a lot of discourse this year about who can play country music. But at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s annual Medallion Ceremony on Sunday, officially inducting this year’s class, the answer was “anyone who showed up.” That included two members of the Rock & Roll …