Music

If The Fear of Standing Still, American Aquarium’s 10th studio album, out July 26, carries an unmistakable theme of home and comfort, credit that to Pearl. Pearl Barham is 6 years old, and when she sets her sights on something she wants, she usually gets it. On a Monday afternoon …

The Rolling Stones spent the last three months hitting football stadiums in major cities all across North America on their Hackney Diamonds tour. But it all wrapped up Sunday night at the New Thunder Ridge Nature Arena at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri. That’s a 20,000-seat outdoor amphitheater in …

Earlier this year, Sam Smith was pictured using a cane and leg brace for support while walking around in New York. During a recent appearance on the podcast Sidetracked with Annie and Nick, the musician revealed that they needed the gear after tearing their ACL in a skiing accident. “I …

Guitarist Jerry Miller, a founding member of the influential psychedelic rock group Moby Grape, died Sunday at age 81. Miller’s grandson, Cody, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone. A cause of death was not immediately available. Born in Tacoma, Washington in 1943, Miller came up in the same Pacific …

Muna are one of the most prominent alt-rock/pop bands of the moment, and this weekend, they shared a festival lineup with Alanis Morissette, a major figure whose success helped pave the way for their own career. That might not meet the technical definition of the word “ironic,” but it was …

“Nothing in this world is free,” Jack White tells us on his new album. Whether that’s metaphorically true, White himself proved that it’s factually inaccurate. If you happened to be in London, Nashville, or Detroit on Friday, July 19, and visited White’s Third Man Records shop, his latest offering was, …

Thirty years ago, the boundaries of Latin American rock were forever expanded with the release of Re, the second album by Mexican quartet Café Tacvba. At the time, other bands were also fusing mainstream rock idioms with the vast tapestry of traditional Latin folk. Tacvba outdid them all with Re …

Is Childish Gambino a zombie? Possessed? On Monday, the musician released the video for Bando Stone‘s “Lithonia” — and while it starts unassuming, it takes a terror-filled turn in the end. The video opens with a closeup of Gambino, wearing glasses, a T-shirt, and shorts, singing the track into a …

What started as a modest affair with a mix of local acts and other up-and-comers (including one Solána Rowe, the week after her second EP as SZA dropped), Washington D.C.’s Broccoli City Festival has evolved into one of the country’s largest music weekends catering specifically to Black concertgoers. This year, …

This February, Alvvays took a moment to think about how far they’d come. The Canadian indie-pop group was standing on the red carpet at the 66th Grammy Awards, a sentence that might have sounded delightfully absurd once. But their song “Belinda Says” — a shimmering highlight from 2022’s Blue Rev …