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A maarae is scrolling through the Notes app on her phone, which is crammed with questions and observations about Tinashe. When she was a teenager in Ghana, Amaarae was obsessed with the singer’s mix of melody and movement. It’s part of why she’s so excited about their Musicians on Musicians …

W ithin minutes of arriving at the studio for their Musicians on Musicians shoot, Redman and Black Thought are exchanging daps and catching up like old friends — because they are. The two voluble MCs, who took parallel paths to fame in the Nineties, laugh and swap stories in the …

S unlight is spilling through the wide windows at Wondaland West, Janelle Monáe’s rustic creative campus tucked in the hills above Hollywood, when Lucy Dacus takes her place on set. The two artists — in matching navy Thom Browne blazers — are sitting across from each other in worn leather …

F orty-two years ago, Cyndi Lauper told the world that “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on her debut single. And right now, she’s sitting in a north Brooklyn studio with Gracie Abrams and doing just that. They’re bopping their heads to Rickie Lee Jones’ “The Last Chance Texaco” and …

“This is, like, our 15th time in New York,” MJ Lenderman told the crowd at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre on Thursday night. That’s only a slight exaggeration. This time last year, the North Carolina guitarist kicked off three nights at the 650-capacity Music Hall of Williamsburg in support of his breakthrough …

O ne day in 2013, Jack Antonoff was sitting in a car in Los Angeles with his friend Hayley Williams when he decided to play her a new song. Back then, Antonoff was best known as a member of the band Fun., and he hoped to release the track, “I …

“I don’t want your love, I just wanna fight!” Wet Leg singer Rhian Teasdale shouted at the crowd during “Catch These Fists,” the band’s opening number Tuesday night at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works. But even if Teasdale meant her rebuffs, the fans at the sold-out third installment of Rolling Stone’s …

I have a sneaking suspicion that everybody wants to be in a musical,” says Paul Mescal without a hint of irony, reaching into an off-license refrigerator and pulling out a pink G&T in a can. “Should we get a cold one of these?” He grabs two then saunters up to …

G rowing up in small-town Missouri in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Casey Gomez Walker was an indie kid, searching out the lyrics to her favorite songs by the Shins and LCD Soundsystem, scrolling through posts on Tumblr, and dreaming of a wider world. That was enough to make …

If anyone was going to be salty about their breakups going into Labor Day weekend, it’s certainly not the Beaches. All four members of Toronto’s casually cool indie-pop band —lead singer and bassist Jordan Miller, guitarists Kylie Miller and Leandra Earl, and drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel — traded brokenhearted resentment and …