Music

St. Vincent brought the pummeling desire of “Flea” — the track from herfirst self-produced record,All Born Screaming — to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday. Draped in red light and decked in a tweed skirt-suit, the rock iconoclast opened with the teasing verse “I’m just like a hungry …

Anohni and the Johnsons, Jessica Pratt, and Waxahatchee will appear at Big Ears Festival next year. Taking place on March 27 through 30 in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, the stacked lineup also includes Rufus Wainwright, Esperanza Spalding, Taj Mahal, Lankum, Yo La Tengo, Sun Ra Arkestra, Cassandra Jenkins, Wilco’s Nels Cline, …

Morrissey claims he has been “gagged” over the release of his album Bonfire of the Teenagers, which he recorded between 2020 and 2021. In a rare interview withThe Telegraph, the musician said that “idiot culture” is preventing the LP from coming out. The unreleased album has been controversial because the …

Texas country artist Joshua Ray Walker, known for songs like “Voices” and “Lot Lizard,” has launched a GoFundMe upon revealing that his 2023 cancer diagnosis had unexpectedly spread. Walker told fans late last year that he’d been diagnosed with colon cancer; he subsequently underwent surgery in January before beginning chemotherapy. …

D o you want to bedazzle my grinder?” Chappell Roan is standing in front of a vintage armoire, holding the silver weed-crushing tool and contemplating what to do today. It’s a hot, gorgeous July Friday, and she has a rare day off in between her increasingly viral festival performances. The …

Few things give a budding pop star their bona fides quite like proving their major label wrong. And that’s exactly what Chappel Roan did with “Pink Pony Club,” the 2020 single she fought to release, which has become one of the hits fueling her massive 2024 rise. In her new …

The Linda Lindas are in music for their love of the craft. On Tuesday, the girl band released their new single “No Obligation,” the title track for their upcoming album written by vocalist Eloise Wong, about not conforming to the norm. “Eloise wrote this ripper because we won’t adhere to …

Nada Surf are always the indie-rock grown-ups in the room—the band who know exactly who they are and what they’re doing. Their excellent new Moon Mirror has all the tropes that go into a Nada Surf album: exquisite guitar chimes polished until they gleam, melodies that kick in and stick, …

Until now, anyone who wanted to hear live recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at their peak had to settle for the double album 4 Way Street. That record, culled from their 1970 shows, had its charged moments, including one of the earliest live versions of Neil Young’s “Ohio,” …

Zack Bryan’s ballad of brotherly love and strife, “Oak Island,” has received a new music video starring Casey Affleck. The visual matches the song’s story of two brothers on divergent paths, one trying to save the other from a potentially devastating mistake. The video opens with Affleck repeatedly calling his …