Music

David Gilmour kicked off his Luck and Strange world tour Friday night at Circo Massimo in Rome, Italy. The set featured six songs from the new album, multiple guest appearances by Gilmour’s daughter Romany, three tunes from 2015’s Rattle That Lock, and 12 Pink Floyd classics. Prior to the tour, …

To be fair, when the People’s Choice Country Awards announced Shania Twain as their host for 2024, they never said the country music pioneer would perform. But Twain’s opening —choreographed, dramatic, and over the top —sure got our hopes up that one was coming. As the synth intro to Twain’s …

A couple of decades have passed since Brad Paisley, 51, first wooed a woman with the pickup line, “Girl, I can hardly wait to get a little mud on the tires” in his 2003 hit, “Mud on the Tires.” On his new song “Truck Still Works,” that girl is back …

Puerto Rican singer Rauw Alejandro hitches a ride on a jetplane to Ibiza in his latest music video for new single, “Pasaporte.” The artist paired the track’s release with the announcement that his fifth studio albumCosa Nuestrawill drop Nov. 15. A press release touts the upcoming LP as marking “a …

Lady Gaga stays in character on Harlequin. It’s her companion to Joker: Folie a Deux, inspired by her role as Harley Quinn. But it’s a luxuriant album of jazzy swing, mostly standards, right in her sweet spot. Harlequin is in the swank mode of her Tony Bennett albums Cheek to …

When Lady Gaga wrapped her third movie — the upcoming Joker sequel, Folie à Deux — she realized she wasn’t ready to move on from her character, Harleen “Lee” Quinzel, a.k.a. Harley Quinn. “I had such a deep relationship with Lee,” she tells Rolling Stone. “And when I was done …

Even before he was federally indicted on charges of bribery, wire fraud, and soliciting campaign contributions from a foreign national, New York mayor Eric Adams had his share of WTF moments. There was the time he was asked what made New York special and he answered, bizarrely, “This is a …

Stevie Nicks has logged on. The icon dropped “The Lighthouse,” a stellar anthem for women’s rights. Co-written withMagnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis, the track opens with Nicks’ vocals and subtle instrumentation, before unfurling into a full-blown cathartic rocker. “I have my scars/You have yours,” she sings. “Don’t let them take …

Welcome to ourweeklyrundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Stevie Nicks delivers a powerful women’s rights anthem, Lady Gaga drops a surprise jazz album, and Rauw Alejandro rolls through with some heart-tugging slickness. Plus, Mickey Guyton, Billy Strings, …

Billy Joel will once again be taking the stage with fellow legends Stevie Nicks and Sting in the new year, and has announced a run of five concerts in different U.S. cities. Joel will open his stadium trek with Sting at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, …