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Early in the sixth album from Big Thief, the band’s singer-­songwriter, Adrianne Lenker, misses a flight. For most of us, this wouldn’t be ­anything but a hassle. She turns it into a dream: “Driving with my lover,” she sings against distant guitar shimmer and agile, circular drumming, “We added up …

Kim Gordon’s candid, revelatory “Girl in a Band,” published just a few years after the dissolution of Sonic Youth, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock memoirs ever. Since the book’s release in 2015, Gordon has gone on to relaunch her career in music with a pair of …

Kelsea Ballerini is almost like an honorary Jonas sister. Just a handful of years after opening for the group on their 2021 tour, the country star joined Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas for a pair of performances during the group’s show in Dallas on Sunday. “We had the wonderful pleasure …

It appears that all is well between Drake and Bobbi Althoff. The podcast host and content creator went viral in 2023 when Drizzy appeared on her show, The Really Good Podcast, setting off a spree of other rapper interviews — including Lil Yachty, YG, and Offset — as well as …

“As exciting as watching trees sprout” is decidedly a pejorative idiom. Still, it’s somehow the perfect way to describe these elegiac bops. Indeed, Devonté Hynes, on his fifth studio LP as Blood Orange, manages to make life’s contemplative moments seem urgent, celestial, and rehabilitative. No actual trees sprout on the …

Miguel has finally announced his long-awaited fifth album, Caos, with the LP set to arrive Oct. 23 — also the musician’s 40th birthday — via ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records. Along with announcing Caos, Miguel soft-released the album’s new single and title-track. The song hasn’t been given a wide release just yet, …

Cardi B won the debate. And the trial too. A week after going viral for calling her witness-stand interrogation a “debate,” not an “altercation,” the Grammy-winning rapper was handed a resounding victory at her civil trial over claims she physically assaulted a security guard she accused of filming her. Jurors …

Fifth Harmony is back — and the reunion fervor is all over Spotify. Data obtained by Rolling Stone shows searches for the girl group increased by 665 percent following the group’s surprise performance on Sunday night. The group reunited as a four-piece for the first time since their “indefinite hiatus,” …

Lil Nas X‘s father, Robert Stafford, has spoken out following the arrest of his son last week. Stafford discussed the incident with The Times over the weekend, describing the rapper’s breakdown as the price of fame. “I understand how the music business is,” Stafford said. “It’s like a high. When …

The Sex Pistols and Frank Carterhave some bad news to share. On Friday, guitarist Steve Jones broke the news to fans that he had broken his wrist and that the band would need to postpone their upcoming run of North and American shows that had been slated to kick off …