Music

David Bowie secretly began working on a musical set in 18th-century London in the months leading up to his death in 2016, according to new notes discovered locked in his New York City office. As the BBC reports, the project was tentatively titled The Spectator and not even Bowie’s closest …

The MTV Video Music Awards will pay tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne with an all-star performance featuring Yungblud and members of Aerosmith. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, and Yungblud will take the stage together at New York’s UBS Arena this Sunday to deliver a medley of some …

A new documentary chronicles the impact of songwriting great Lucinda Williams. Finding Lucinda begins streaming on Video on Demand on Sept. 9. Ahead of its premiere, Rolling Stone is debuting an exclusive clip from the film, directed by Joel Fendelman. In the scene, Williams talks about the balancing act of …

I never lived in New York, but growing up about 120 miles from the city, within TV antenna range of WPIX, Channel 11, I absorbed a lot of its culture as a kid. Crazy Eddie’s madcap commercials, The Honeymooners marathons on New Year’s Eve, ads for “beautiful Mount Airy Lodge” …

Lady Gaga has postponed her show in Miami tonight, citing an “extremely strained” voice and recommendations from both her doctor and vocal coach to rest. The star called off the show just before it was set to kick off in Kaseya Center as thousands gathered to see Gaga perform. “I …

Alabama hip-hop artist Clever got his big break when the late rapper Juice WRLD shared one of his songs on his Instagram page, instantly gaining him thousands of followers overnight. That helped also put him on the radar of Post Malone, who discovered Clever’s song “Stick by My Side” with …

David Byrne swapped his big suit for an orange tracksuit on The Tonight Show during an intimate performance at Rough Trade NYC in Rockefeller Plaza. In the episode aired on Wednesday, theformer Talking Heads frontmanperformed his new single “What Is The Reason For It?” from his upcoming album, Who Is …

By now, fans see David Byrne as more than a quirky dude in a beloved legacy rock act. He’s a plainspoken public intellectual; an advocate for civic improvement and multi-cultural cooperation; a neurodiverse poet of the modern condition; an artistic éminence grise with fingers on multiple cultural pulses. In some …

Fresh off the “End of Summer,” Tame Impala is back with another single, enlisting actor Joe Keery for the new video “Loser.” The Sam Kristofski-directed video follows the Stranger Things star and Djo singer in the moments after a breakup, tracking him as he walks over to a local bodega …

Morrissey has used the “Messages From Morrissey” section of his official website to air his grievances about everything from a lack of financial support from the music industry to feeling creatively misunderstood by most everyone around him. Most read like frustration-fueled diary entries dressed up as public service announcements. But …