Music

This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more here. WHEN YOU START playing Murio La Musica, a mixtape by Argentinian rappers AgusFortnite2008 and Stiffy, you hear an onslaught of crunchy 808s and incantation-­like chants that ascend through disorienting key changes. As soon as …

The upcoming Sublime biopic seems to have cast its Bradley Nowell, with Riverdale lead KJ Apa set to play the late singer. Deadline first reported the casting, and Apa reposted the news on his Instagram Stories on Thursday, tagging the film’s director Justin Chon. The decision comes two years after …

This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more here. THE VENEZUELAN RAPPER Akapellah was about 10 yers old when he came across a street vendor selling a bootleg copy of Tego Calderon’s 2003 album, El Abayarde. Struck by the cover — a black …

Elle King doesn’t appear to be walking back any of the unflattering claims she’d made about her father Rob Schneider last month, though she did come forward this week to say she had no malicious intent. “I never in a million years thought that that was going to go viral,” …

This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more here. NOBODY REALLY SAW the dark, low-fi reggaeton hit “Gata Only” coming. The shadowy club hit, by FloyyMenor featuring Cris MJ, started out wrapped up in some mystery, partially because prior to the song’s success, …

Zach Bryan has deactivated his Twitter/X account after “drunkenly” declaring his preference for Kanye West over Taylor Swift — but turned to Instagram Thursday morning to make amends. The trouble started on Tuesday night when Bryan, a vocal supporter of the Philadelphia Eagles (who lost to Travis Kelce’s Kansas City …

Last fall, State Champs went on a spiritual quest to Joshua Tree. At least, that’s how lead singer Derek DiScanio, 31, describes the pop-punk band’s trip there to start work on their new album. “We took a week, and we just had a little team bonding,” he says over a …

Ani DiFranco will hit the road early next year on an extensive tour in support of her latest album, Unprecedented Sh!t. The first leg of the trek will kick off on Jan. 16 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin and wrap on Feb. 1 at the Moore Theater in Seattle. …

One evening three months ago, Paul Klein was riding his Vespa through the streets of Los Angeles. Asthe LANY singer passed through an intersection, a car taking a left smashed into him, hurling Klein across the car’s windshield. When he woke up in an ambulance 20 minutes later, Klein found …

Bright Eyes announced on Wednesday that they will be canceling their upcoming record release shows due to founder and lead vocalist Conor Oberst losing his voice. In a statement shared to social media, the band said that they were “heartbroken” over the decision and that “warm up shows we played …