Before Micah Nelson, before Nils Lofgren, and before Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, there was Danny Whitten. The original Crazy Horse guitarist died over 50 years ago, but the mark he made on Neil Young and the band persists to this day. Just watch this clip from the recent, now-suspended tour, where …
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Megan Thee Stallion’s rise to rap stardom can be measured in summers. 2019 marked the first Hot Girl Summer, taking after her nickname, and she christened it with her beloved first mainstream mixtape, Fever. The next year, in July, her world was remade for the worst when she was shot …
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Sometimes a change will do you good. After nearly 15 years of recording and performing as Mike and the Moonpies, the Texas country group led by singer-songwriter Mike Harmeier shot for the moon and jettisoned their snack-cake name, choosing to rebrand as Silverada. To some fans, it seemed unnecessary: What …
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Imagine Dragons never got the memo that this is supposed to be an era of diminishing returns for big, ambitious, overbearing, oversharing pop-rock bands. It’s been more than a decade since they released their career-making hits “Demons” and “Radioactive,” yet they remain staples of modern rock radio as well as …
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A decade into their career as a band, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats have settled into a groove as as roots-rock juggernauts, releasing records every three years and gracing festival main stages with high-energy live shows that foreground the band’s revivalist revue appeal. The band’s fourth album,South of Here, …
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On the cover of American Recordings, Johnny Cash‘s stunning 1994 comeback album, the Man in Black stands squarely between Sin and Redemption — literally, since that’s what he named the black-and-white dogs that flank him as he glares into your soul. At the time, he also felt between sin and …
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Towa Bird is the rock & roll firecracker we need right now. She’s the kind of upstart guitar shredder who comes along saying things like “I just want to be the lesbian Paul McCartney.” That takes attitude, kind of like calling your debut album American Hero. But Bird doesn’t lack …
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Camila Cabello called herself “a weirdo” when she announced her fourth solo album, and “I Luv It,” its Playboy Carti-assisted, Gucci Mane-sampling fever-dream lead single, certainly fits the bill. Zip-tie synths accompany Cabello’s breathless delivery of semi-surrealistic lines like “I go soprano/ Baby go down low/ And when he leads/ …
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At the midpoint of his second studio album, God Said No, Omar Apollo’s vocals tumble out in Spanish for the first and only time on the record. “Cantando en otro lenguaje pa que no me entiendes,” the Mexican American musician sings over featherlight harmonies and lulling violins on “Empty.” On …
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Over the last four years, Gracie Abrams has skyrocketed to the top of every sad girl summer playlist. Her EPThis Is What It Feels Likeand last year’s debut albumGood Riddancehelped put her on the map while laying the groundwork for a fruitful collaborative relationship with Aaron Dessner. After a summer …
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