Music

A few songs into Kings of Leon’s new album, frontman Caleb Followill asks something uncomfortable: “Are we still having fun?” The answer: yes, but maybe in a way you wouldn’t expect. Over two decades after the Tennessee rockers released their excellent debut Youth & Young Manhood, Kings of Leons’ ninth …

When Washed Out frontman Ernest Greene agreed to collaborate with filmmaker Paul Trillo on the world’s first music video to be made entirely using OpenAI‘s video-generation tool Sora, he didn’t quite know what he was getting himself into. “To me, this is just a brand-new tool to explore,” Greene tells …

All the time Justin Bieber has spent performing “Baby” since 2010 has led up to this moment of manifestation: the Biebers are pregnant. On Thursday afternoon, Justin and wife Hailey Bieber announced that they are expecting their first child together. The musician announced the pregnancy on Instagram with a sweet …

Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, the founding MC5 drummer and the last surviving original member of the pioneering proto-punk group, died Wednesday, The Detroit Free Press reported. He was 75. An exact cause of death was not given, though Thompson had reportedly suffered a series of medical issues in recent months, …

Maryland signed a new ticketing bill on Thursday that’s set to outlaw some of the live music industry’s most common deceptive ticketing practices: Hidden fees and speculative ticket listings. Maryland governor Wes Moore signed the legislation on Thursday afternoon, weeks after it first passed through the state’s senate. Fees tacked …

PJ Harvey paid tribute to Steve Albini, who she recorded her acclaimed second album Rid of Me with, following the death of the noise-rock pioneer. “Meeting Steve Albini and working with him changed the course of my life. He taught me so much about music, and life. Steve was a …

Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango remembered his bandmate Steve Albini as a “caring and giving person” whose sudden death earlier this week “has left a huge hole in my life.” In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, Durango said the news of Albini’s death from a heart attack at the …

Beabadoobee is embracing the sweet aspects of her daily chaos. On Thursday, the indie star announced that she’ll release her album This Is How Tomorrow Moves on Aug. 16 as she teases the record by dropping lead single “Take a Bite.” “It’s me feeling introspective about unhealthy way of living,” …

Gracie Abrams stopped by The Tonight Show to showcase her recent single, “Risk.” The musician was joined by her band to perform the song, which sees her singing about taking chances on love. “Risk” is the first single from Abrams’ upcoming albumThe Secret of Us, out June 21. The song …

Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson was placed in a court-ordered conservatorship Thursday that will be run by his longtime publicist and manager, Jean Sievers, and his longtime business manager, LeeAnn Hard. The reps revealed in a petition filed last February that Wilson is suffering from dementia at the age of …