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The BBC has shared a video of Fontaines D.C. showcasing their latest single, “Favourite,” at Glastonbury last weekend. The group dropped the shimmering love song in June along with a self-directed music video for the track, which documented a recent trip to Madrid. In the clip, the band can be …

In barely five years, Zach Bryan has transformed from cult-roots road warrior (2020’sElisabeth)to fast-rising country-adjacent renegade (2022’sAmerican Heartbreak)to Number One hitmaker and voice-of-a-Gen-Z-generation storyteller (2023’s Zach Bryan). The men and women (mostly men) in his songs spend their twenties drinking their way through the alienating cities they’ve fled to from …

The War & Treaty have spent the last year gracing award show stages, garnering Grammy nominations, and even earning their first-ever platinum single. But for artists of color in the country and Americana space, success and acclaim doesn’t mean escaping the litany of microaggressions and racist assumptions built into these …

Whirlwind, the forthcoming album from Lainey Wilson, is surely the most anticipated country blockbuster of the year. Now, with the album less than two months away, the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year is front-loading the release with a slew of teases. One day after releasing the video to “Hang …

John Mayer is just one of several high-profile special guests (hello Bruce) featured on Bryan’s brand-new album, The Great American Bar Scene, but he’s the first to share effusive public praise of the 28-year-old’s fifth record. Recorded at Electric Lady in New York, Mayer added guitar to “Better Days,” one …

Kesha? This is Ke$ha. The pop star celebrated Independence Day with her first single as a free woman — and under her own label imprint, Kesha Records. On Thursday, Kesha released “Joyride,” a return to the dancey, campy pop music she entranced audiences with on Animal and Warrior. “You want …

Zach Bryan’s new album, The Great American Bar Scene, includes his song with Bruce Springsteen, “Sandpaper.” Bryan first teased “Sandpaper” earlier this year, playing the song pretty regularly during a run of dates on his Quittin’ Time tour back in March. Then, at his March 27 show in Brooklyn, Springsteen …

Justin Timberlake‘s recent DUI arrest resulted in a lot of memes. Now the singer’s mugshot has been been transformed into a work of art by artist Godfrey Lohman. Titled “Tuesday Night Out Featuring Justin Timberlake,” the piece is on display at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY and …

If being a great rapper were only about swagger, Chris Conde would be all set: he carries himself with a supreme confidence, typically in nothing more than a leather harness. But the Brooklyn MC’s flow is also mesmerizing, and his bars are scandalously entertaining — check recent tracks “Notorious F.A.G.” …

A German city is preparing to celebrate the Eras Tour by temporarily renaming itself after Taylor Swift. Ahead of the singer’s three July concerts, Gelsenkirchen has taken on the moniker Swiftkirchen, which translates to “Swift’s Church.” Swift’s popular global tour will arrive in the city formerly known as Gelsenkirchen on …