Music

In the blistering heat of June 2013, as Egypt teetered on the brink of monumental change, Cairokee, the country’s trailblazing rock band, took the stage in front of hundreds of thousands gathered at a sit-in outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace. What followed wasn’t just a performance — it was an …

Jeff Buckley’s last home in Memphis, Tennessee is being remodeled and turned into an Airbnb by developers, the Commercial Appeal reports. Goode Development purchased the house at 93 North Rembert Street in March for $143,800; the house is still being repaired and restored, but it’s expected to be ready by …

How do you honor the legacy of an artist as brilliantly challenging as Sophie? In her lifetime, the Scottish producer rewired pop music by prioritizing the search for “the loudest, brightest thing” above all else. Her legendary run of hard-edged club singles in the early 2010s, followed by her impossibly …

Willie Nelson and Margo Price encouraged their fans in Texas and Tennessee to register to vote and cast a ballot in favor of the states’ respective Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate. In Texas, Colin Allred is trying to unseat Republican Ted Cruz, while Gloria Johnson — one of the Tennessee …

The man behind the publication of a memoir purported to be from Sean Combs’ ex-partner Kim Porter tells Rolling Stone that he can’t guarantee the book’s authenticity after he claims to have received a flash drive containing the book from two “music industry” sources but insists that he “believes it …

Bruce Springsteen shows fans what it takes to create that ultimate rock and roll magic in the new trailer for his upcoming documentary, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The film is centered largely around Springsteen’s latest world tour, which he became determined to do during the …

We gather here today to mourn the loss of a true pop icon: the horny outros Sabrina Carpenter usually performs at the end of “Nonsense.” The pop phenom kicked off her Short n’ Sweet world tour in Columbus, Ohio, last night to an audience anticipating which city-incorporating innuendo she would …

Call them the concert illuminati. You’re at a show in an arena or stadium, watching Bruce Springsteen, Chris Stapleton, Coldplay, Madonna, or Weezer, when suddenly the darkness is dotted with dozens, hundreds, then thousands points of light — all from cellphones. The origin story of this concert ritual is a …

Sean Combs has been placed in the same cell of a Brooklyn jail with convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, The New York Times reports. The two are not cellmates in the classic sense of sharing the same small jail room; rather, they’re both sleeping in a large dormitory-style room at …

Across the U.S., teens are preparing for high school homecoming football games and dances. Last night at Madison Square Garden saw a homecoming of a different sort: New York teenagers (a.k.a. 27-31-year-olds) donned wraparound sunglasses and baby tees to dance out the final gasps of Brat Summer — Brautumn, if …