Music

The Black Keys have canceled the upcoming North American leg of their International Players Tour, with dates for the jaunt abruptly erased without explanation from the band’s social media pages and official website. On Friday, fans noticed that the Ticketmaster listing for the International Players Tour’s North American arena shows …

Doug Ingle, the founding singer and organist of the late Sixties hard rock band Iron Butterfly and the co-writer of the group’s hit “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” has died at the age of 78. The singer’s son Doug Ingle Jr. confirmed his father’s death on social media (via Blabbermouth), “It’s with a heavy …

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made an increasingly rare appearance onstage together Thursday as the Rush duo covered Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” at a Toronto tribute concert for the late Canadian singer-songwriter. Lee and Lifeson, who were billed as “L+L” on the lineup, performed alongside the Canadian country …

Anitta is standing by her “Aceita” video. In a new interview with the Associated Press, Anitta revealed that she had lost more than 300,000 followers after she featured footage ofpractices from her Afro-Brazilian faith, Candomblé, in the video for her Funk Generation track. “I always knew this was going to …

While backstage at the Ivor Novello Awards in London on Thursday, Lana Del Rey detailed which of her songs was written — and rejected — for a James Bond film. “I mean, how has that not happened yet?” Del Rey replied when asked by BBC if she would consider writing …

The opening of Morgan Wallen’s new Nashville bar and restaurant, slated for Memorial Day weekend, has been postponed at the last minute. Days after a city council denied neon signage to Morgan Wallen’s This Bar — with local politicians citing the country star’s chair-throwing incident and past use of racial …

PinkPantheress is ready to get back to the music with the release of her latest single, “Turn it Up,” marking the musician’s first release since sharing her debut album Heaven Knows in 2023. The propulsive, skittering record builds around a sample of Selena Quintanilla’s “Dreaming of You.” “Super excited to …

W e are doing stuff that is indicative of fun,” Arooj Aftab says, quite seriously, in the flat staccato cadence of a test proctor. The Pakistani-born, Berklee-trained, Brooklyn-based musician is talking about the singing on her new album, Night Reign, out May 31: the doubled vocals, the fresh harmonies, and …

Ten years after the release of his Def Jam debut, the Hell Can Wait EP, Vince Staples occupies an ambiguous middle-ground, stuck between platinum-certified arena status and the ephemeral virality that defines too much of the mainstream rap industry. It’s a space that he shares with a handful of others …

The family of Ezra Blount, the nine-year-old killed in the crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival, has settled the last outstanding wrongful death lawsuit tied to the 2021 tragedy. As the Houston Chronicle reports, Scott West, a lawyer for the Blount family, said the settlement was reached earlier this …