Music

A week after the release of the Decemberists’ first album in six years, the long-running Portland-based band visited CBS Mornings’ Saturday Sessions to play three tracks from As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again. For the in-studio performance, Colin Meloy and company performed “Burial Ground,” “Long White Veil,” …

Toomaj Salehi, the dissident Iranian rapper sentenced to death in April for releasing music critical of the country’s government, had the punishment overturned Saturday and will face retrial. Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raesian wrote on social media (via the Guardian), “As expected, the Supreme Court avoided an irreparable judicial error,” and …

Taylor Swift is in London, England this weekend for a three-night Eras Tour run at Wembley Stadium. For her second night on Saturday, she treated fans to the live debut of “Thank You, Aimee,” and performed “Castles Crumbling” with her tour mate, Paramore’s Hayley Williams. During her performance of The …

As predicted by Charli XCX, working with Lorde on a remixed version of “Girl, so confusing” indeed made the “internet go crazy.” And, it also touched one of Charli’s earliest friends, Marina, who shared that she teared up while listening to the two singers work through their differences on the …

Following years of an alleged rift between Brandy and Monica, the “So Gone” singer said that reconnecting on “The Boy Is Mine” with Ariana Grande helped the R&B powerhouses close some gaps in their relationship. “The process of the new collaboration did a lot of closing the gaps,” Monica told …

Taylor Swift kicked off the first show of three nights at London‘s Wembley Stadium on Friday. The singer delivered a live debut of “The Black Dog” from her double album, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. “I’ve never played this one live before,” Swift said to the crowd in videos …

Crash begins with Kehlani Parrish tumbling through watery depths. “I’m kind of crazy,” they sing as a backing chorus trills lightly in a reflection of asphyxia. When they hit the ocean’s floor, the beat switches on “GrooveTheory” into a slow, sinuous cut, the kind that will be familiar to fans …

Paris Hilton has linked up with Rina Sawayama for a new song, “I’m Free,” the latest offering from Hilton’s upcoming album, Infinite Icon (out Sept. 6). “I’m Free” pairs gossamer synths with club pop percussion, with Hilton and Sawayama singing on the chorus, “I’m free/To do what I wanna do/It’s …

When Peso Pluma announced his album Éxodo in his historic Rolling Stone cover story earlier this year, he promised to reveal a “darker side” of himself and explore a part of his artistry he hadn’t touched on his excellent 2023 breakthrough, Génesis. “There’s going to be a lot of things …

You’ll have to pardon Laura Jane Grace, she’s not feeling herself. On “All Fucked Out,” her latest single backed by the Mississippi Medicals, she explains her predicament atop a dusty tarpaulin of loping country-punk: “I’m all fucked out of the real thing/I’m dry like bread – stale & crusty/I got …