Music

Lainey Wilson stopped by The Tonight Show to showcase her song “4x4xU,” off her recent LP Whirlwind. The country singer performed the track on guitar and vocals alongside her live band and backup singers, who joined Wilson on adjacent sofas on the late-night show’s stage. Wilson released “4x4xU” in July …

Jon Bon Jovi has been credited with helping save a woman who was hanging off a bridge in Nashville on Tuesday night. According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, the musician helped persuade an unidentified woman come off the ledge of the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, which spans Tennessee’s Cumberland …

A PETA protestor brandishing a sign that read “Pharrell: Stop Supporting Killing Animals for Fashion” disrupted the premiere of the Pharrell Williams animated Lego biopic Piece by Piece at the Toronto International Film Festival. The interruption came as the musician and Louis Vuitton men’s creative director answered questions following the …

Believe it ornot, the 2024VMAshave officially arrived. On Wednesday, the biggest names in music gathered for theMTV Video Music Awardsto see who would take home the night’s top prizes. Taylor Swift led the pack of nominees with 12 nods, almost all of which were for the visual for herTortured Poets …

Fear is the mind killer, as anyone who’s read Dune knows, but for Franz Ferdinand it’s inspiration. Various forms of foreboding informed every song on the Scots’ upcoming sixth studio album The Human Fear, due out Jan. 10. That said, the buoyant riff and almost ska-like rhythms of their new …

In the summer of 2022, we lost my mother to ALS. She was diagnosed only a few weeks prior to her death, but, in hindsight, it was clear she was exhibiting symptoms at least a year earlier. She lost weight (she blamed the pandemic’s infringing on her nights out to …

Tems brought the heat to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night with a live performance of “Burning.” The song arrived on the Nigerian musician’s debut album Born in the Wild, released in June. While Tems has usually been backed by a multi-piece band during her late night …

Swifties for Kamala, the thousands-deep coalition helping to elect Vice President Kamala Harris as the 47th president of the United States, have gained a support in the biggest Swiftie of them all: Taylor Swift. The musician shared her endorsement for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, just …

Frankie Beverly, founder of the legendary funk and soul band Maze who dropped a plethora of gold albums during the Seventies and Eighties and notched a generational hit with 1981’s “Before I Let Go,” has died. He was 77. Beverly — born Howard Stanley Beverly — died Monday, Sept. 10, …

Nobody’s favorite Queen album is their 1973 self-titled debut. And Queen has agreed until now. Half a century after its release, the group is reissuing the album with a completely rebuilt remix that it hopes will do justice to the rest of the songs. The reissue, due Oct. 25, has …