Music

With the high desert sun fading behind the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, My Morning Jacket launched into “I’m Amazed” during their set at the Park City Song Summit. “I’m amazed at what the people sayin’,” the Jacket’s Jim James sang. “I’m amazed by a divided nation.” In a time when …

Gunna and the Black Music Action Coalition have announced a new initiative that will provide a monthly stipend of $1,000 to over two dozen families in the rapper’s hometown for one year. Named the Gunna x BMAC 30349 Guaranteed Income Program, it will choose grantees in the specific zip code …

Throughout their first decade of record-making, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings performed, they’d joke, as “a two person band they called Gillian Welch.” There was a spine-tingling profundity and a solemn intensity to the universe of sound created when Rawlings and Welch stood around a single microphone and sang songs …

The NFL is making history by bringing the league to South America next month — and they’re bringing a Brazilian star with them. On Tuesday, the NFL announced that Anitta will headline the league’s first-ever match-up in Brazil on Sept. 6. Anitta will perform during the halftime of the game …

Don’t expect to see this Feminomenon on screen anytime soon. Chappell Roan graced the cover of Interview Magazine on Monday, and revealed that she’s “freaked out” by film people and would rather not be an actor. “I say this with peace, and love, and blessings. Actors are fucking crazy,” she …

O nce, I was sitting in the apartment of WestBam, Germany’s iconic techno DJ, at Berlin Alexanderplatz, when Juan Atkins’ name came up. Without him, we all would be nothing — that’s how WestBam described him. I was surprised to learn that the two had never met. It was a …

There’s no “Timber” without Kesha‘s iconic chorus! Just days after fans noticed that Kesha was no longer listed in the credits for Pitbull‘s “Timber” video, the singer’s name reappeared on the 2013 YouTube video’s title on Monday. Over the weekend, fans noticed that the song was only listed as “Pitbull …

It started, as musical happenings sometimes do, with SoundCloud. About five years ago, Matt Sullivan, head of the indie label Light in the Attic, was turned on to a playlist that featured, as he recalls, “funky Seventies stuff, ambient modern classical, and disco.”A few songs reminded him of Cocteau Twins …

When A Thousand Horses were touring behind their 2015 Number One country single “Smoke,” the band brought along a drummer, a keyboardist, and three female backup singers to every show, somehow managing to squeeze nine people onstage. At the time,Rolling Stonelikened them to a country Lynyrd Skynyrd, but it’s a …

Anyone’s first concert can be a transformative experience. If that first concert is a stop on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, the emotional stakes are often through the roof. Usually, a first-time Eras Tour attendee is a tween or teenage fan accompanied by a parent chaperon. But when Swift played London’s …