Music

The members of the New York City-based band Blair could use a hand figuring out how to describe their music. The group’s sound moves intuitively through the expansive psychedelic slacker rock ethos of the Flaming Lips into pop-punk, hip-hop, and even electronic, all with alchemic cohesion. It’s the sound of …

Indie rock duo The Kills released a soulful rendition of Billie Eilish‘s somber single “Happier Than Ever,” which will be featured on the duo’s upcoming EP Happier Girls, dropping this Friday. The Kills, made up of singer Alison Mosshartandguitarist Jamie Hince, first performed an acoustic rendition of the 2021 hit …

Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in Manhattan on Monday evening after a grand jury indicted the hip-hop mogul, authorities said. The arrest follows Homeland Security’s raids on the Bad Boy founder’s homes in late March, seemingly triggered by a wave of sexual abuse lawsuits against him. It was last November …

Last month, Morrissey dropped the rather stunning news that he accepted a “lucrative offer” from AEG Entertainment Group to reform the Smiths alongside Johnny Marr. “Marr ignored the offer,” Morrissey wrote before referring to himself in the third person. “Morrissey undertakes a largely sold out tour of the USA in …

Miley Cyrus has been hit with a new lawsuit alleging she and her fellow songwriters copied portions of a Bruno Mars single when they wrote her Grammy-winning banger “Flowers.” In a new lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court, a company called Tempo Music Investments claimed “Flowers” includes unauthorized …

The Deftones have been on the road nearly non-stop lately, but have mostly been hitting festivals —now, they’re celebrating their enduring, cross-generational popularity with their own headlining run through U.S. arenas this winter and spring. The tour kicks off Feb. 25 in Portland, OR, and wraps up April 8 in …

The police department of Gallup, New Mexico, has shared details of the events that occurred in the hours prior to the death of Tito Jackson on Sunday evening. The musician experienced a medical emergency near the American Heritage Plaza mall before being transported to a local hospital, where he was …

When John Oates moved to Nashville in 2010 to work on his next solo album, he didn’t do what so many pop stars before him had done and pander to a mainstream country music audience. Instead, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member immersed himself in the city’s roots …

“A concert is no good unless there’s some magic,” Jarvis Cocker told the crowd, soon after Pulp hit the stage in Brooklyn. “You react to us, we react to you — that summons the magic.” The Britpop gods reached New York last weekend, for two glorious nights, on their long-awaited …

Despite stiff competition on that year’s rock-legend road-show circuit—the Grateful Dead touring the massive Wall of Sound speaker system, CSNY reunited, hitting the sheds, and de-uniting in record time—there was only one outing anybody meant when they said Tour ’74. That January and February, Bob Dylan and The Band reunited …