Music

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, …

It’s been wild to watch the rise of William Apostol, a.k.a. Billy Strings, a bluegrass prodigy turned crossover star like fellow genre travelers Alison Krauss and Chris Stapleton — but one who’s found a home in Jambandlandia, where his super-sick flatpicking guitar virtuosity has met with big fat dancing bear-hugs. …

Kylie Minogue has dropped a new single, “Lights Camera Action.” The high-energy dance floor track was produced by Lewis Thompson and co-written by Kylie, Thompson, and Ina Wroldsen. Minogue will debut a music video for the song, directed by Sophie Muller and shot in Budapest, later today. The single is …

Hugh Prestwood, the country songwriter who penned hits for Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, Alison Krauss, and Jimmy Buffett, died Sunday, Sept. 22, following a stroke, according to his close friend, songwriter James Dean Hicks. Prestwood was 82. With hits like “Ghost in This House,” “The Song Remembers When,” and “Hard …

Ciara has released a new single, “Wassup,” featuring Busta Rhymes. The song, out via Ciara’s label Beauty Marks Entertainment, was written by Ciara, Busta Rhymes, and Courtlin Jabrae, and producedby J.R. Rotem. “’Wassup’ is a fun flex record,” Ciara said in a statement. “It started with a play on words …

The auction for Dame Dash’s shares of Roc-A-Fella Inc. is currently at a legal stalemate. Last week, the New York Department of Social Services (NYCDSS) filed a motion with U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger asking for a pre-motion hearing to assess Roc-A-Fella’s internal records and long-term outlook. The department’s …

Katy Perry, Tate McRae, Jack Harlow, Twenty One Pilots, Shaboozey, Benson Boone, and the Kid Laroi will headline the annual Jingle Ball tour. The 2024 edition of the tour will kick off Dec. 3 in Dallas/Ft. Worth and continue throughout December, including stops in New York City, Detroit, Washington, D.C., …

Jerry Douglas took the stage and stood proudly while being inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame during the 35th annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards show Thursday night in Raleigh. “You don’t get here alone,” the 68-year-old Dobro legend told the audience at the Martin Marietta Center for …

One evening back in May, Sunflower Bean found themselves in the woods of upstate New York, caked in 200 pounds of clay. They were shooting Shake, a short film to accompany their EP of the same name, and their goal was to look as muddy as possible — a direct …