Music

After pulling their music from Spotify following CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military drone technology, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have successfully taken over the entire Top 25 of Bandcamp’s best-selling albums and are letting fans “name your price.” While Bandcamp’s default pricing for albums is set at …

Morgan Wallen flipped the bird while performing at a recent show at Rogers Centre in Toronto. It was a move many online have interpreted as the singer weighing in on the ongoing feud between Gavin Adcock and Charley Crockett over what merits “authenticity” in the country genre. During Wallen’s performance …

Gene Gallagher’s rock band Villanelle has been drawing large crowds all across Europe ever since playing their first gigs in early 2024, and they’ve finally dropped their debut single, “Hinge.” It’s a blistering Nineties throwback that fuses together elements of Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine, and Dinosaur Jr. “That’s …

Country music has a long history with guns and gun culture, from songs about handing down family heirloom rifles to harvesting that first buck of the season. Ketch Secor, the leader of Old Crow Medicine Show, is a gun owner, but never thought he’d become a staunch advocate for gun …

The first time Turnstile appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series, their set was recorded from home. The band filled the walls of their space with stuffed animals and cartoon plushies, which essentially stood in for a real crowd. Of course, it wasn’t quite the same. Now, they’ve made their …

Benson Boone’s North American tour rolled through Nashville last night, Sept. 9, and to mark the occasion, he delivered a stirring cover of a modern country classic, Jason Isbell’s “Cover Me Up.” The performance began with an arrangement fairly faithful to Isbell’s original, with Boone accompanied by just an acoustic …

When Wicked: For Good arrives in theaters later this year, Ariana Grande‘s Glinda and Cynthia Erivo‘s Elphaba will face hard truths through new songs. Stephen Schwartz composed two new songs for the film, but director Jon Chu assures moviegoers with a particular attachment to the original soundtrack that they wouldn’t …

Sabrina Carpenter thanked fans for “having such a damn good time” with her new album, Man’s Best Friend, after it became her second record to top the Billboard 200 Albums chart. On Instagram on Wednesday, Carpenter shared a short note marking the occasion, as well as an endearing montage of …

Singer D4vd performed in Minneapolis as planned Tuesday night amid a police probe into the “severely decomposed” body that was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to the platinum-selling artist. A source tells Rolling Stone that D4vd was notified of the investigation and is “cooperating” with authorities while …

Nearly a day after Isabella Ladera accused Beéle of leaking a sex video without her consent, the legal team for the Colombian singer, whose real name is Brandon de Jesús López Orozco, claimed that he “did not leak said material” nor “disseminate” it. Today, López Orozco reposted a statement from …