Music

When Ravyn Lenae looks back at her childhood, there’s one image in particular that stands out to her. In it, she’s 12 years old and rocking a tutu skirt from Hot Topic on top of her jeans. It was a different time — before too many perceptions and opinions got …

Donald Trump is guilty of many crimes (starting with at least 34 felonies, to be exact), and one of them is questionable taste in music. We say “questionable,” not “bad,” because while the song choices at his campaign rallies are often fine in themselves, the former president has the nasty …

When organizers were mapping out this year’s pop-punk Summer School tour, they envisioned it as a daylong event akin to its spiritual predecessor, the Warped Tour. Although most shows on the July and August run would be indoors, a few would take place outside. But before the 25-city trek even …

During her final audition for Hannah Montana, 12-year-old Miley Cyrus wore her heart on her sleeve and her life-changing manifestation on her chest. “I should have my own TV show,” read the shirt she wore beneath a blue jacket in the tape. She was right. In the nearly two decades …

Post Malone doesn’t have to look far to find a reminder of his daughter: Her initials, “D.D.P.,” are tattooed on his forehead. The sweet tribute is just one example of how fatherhood has impacted Malone. During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the musician opened up about the ways in …

Sturgill Simpson is, once again, in the midst of an intriguing creative restart. The ambitious country/psych-rock/bluegrass artist announced earlier this summer that you can call him Johnny Blue Skies now, the better to match the melancholy tone of his eighth studio album, Passage du Desir. If you’re wondering why he’s …

Donald Trump’s campaign has been hit with yet another artist not wanting their music being used by the candidate. This time, Celine Dion’s management and record label called out the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign for its “unauthorized usage” of “My Heart Will Go On,” one of her signature hits from …

When we last spoke to singer Chanel Haynes, it was June 2022 and she was still reeling from a surprise call from the Rolling Stones that led to her joining them for “Gimme Shelter” at a show in Milan. Haynes was staring as Tina Turner in a London production of …

Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Olympics correspondent Snoop Dogg — all Los Angeles-based artists — will perform at the 2024 Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony Sunday night as part of the “handover celebration” looking ahead to the LA28 games. H.E.R. was also deliver the National Anthem live from Paris …

Black Midi, the London group whose brand of noise-rock and prog-punk weirdness earned them the title of “the most exciting new band in Britain” early in their career, has apparently called it quits. Fans of the band learned the band’s fate Saturday on social media, where singer/guitarist Geordie Greep was …