Music

Bob Dylan kicked off his Outlaw Tour set at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, by playing “All Along the Watchtower” for the first time since 2018. As always, the arrangement of the 1967 song drew heavily from Jimi Hendrix’s famous cover. Dylan has played “All Along the Watchtower” …

Finneas revisits the awkward agony of unrequited adolescent love on “Cleats,” the latest effort from his upcoming solo album, For Cryin’ Out Loud. The sweet, but bouncy indie pop tune finds Finneas singing about a situationship stuffed with all kinds of signs it’s not going to blossom into anything romantic …

The Cure appear to be on the precipice of finally announcing their long-awaited new album, as the band has wiped their website and teased a release date for their first LP in 16 years. In August, Robert Smith and company announced a 12″ charity single featuring live versions of two …

At the start of every Stephen Wilson Jr. performance, the songwriter announces exactly who he is to his audience: “I am my father’s son.” Those words form the basis of Wilson’s debut album Son of Dad, released last year and still making waves with its personal tales of navigating grief …

As expected, Justin Timberlake appeared in a Long Island, New York court Friday to plead guilty to one count of driving while impaired stemming from the singer’s arrest in June. Timberlake was initially charged with driving while intoxicated, which he pleaded not guilty to, following the Sag Harbor arrest, but …

Shawn Mendes returned to the VMAs stage to perform “Nobody Knows” off his upcoming album, Shawn. In the smoky (literally, so there was much smoke), stripped-down set, Mendes played an acoustic guitar and potently sang an ethereal and liquored-up love song. “You’re an amateur drunk and everyone knows it/ You’re …

The MTV Video Music Awards celebrated their 40th birthday — and for once, MTV aimed to do right by the legacy. This year’s show was full of clips of classic VMAs moments. Madonna and Britney making out, in 2003. Beyoncé announcing her pregnancy, in 2011. Michael Jackson appearing with new …

There are many burning questions about the Oasis reunion tour that have yet to be answered. We still don’t know if they’re going to release any new music, who will play bass, guitars, and drums alongside Liam and Noel Gallagher, if the tour is coming to North America and the …

A cotton candy career of hits becomes a futuristic, post-apocalyptic dream. At Wednesday night’s VMAs, Katy Perry took the stage to deliver a medley of her greatest hits (and her new album, 143) as she celebrated receiving the coveted Video Vanguard Award. Perry’s performance opened with a montage of her …

On “Floods of Triton,” the new collaborative single by Mastodon and Lamb of God, the latter band’s frontman, Randy Blythe, growls, “We’re the last of the before times/Now hear the old gods rise.” When he hears those words read back to him in an interview with Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor, …