Earlier this year, American Aquarium passed the 20-year mark as a band, but frontman BJ Barham isn’t tapping the brakes. The independent, roots-rock outfit is closing out 2025 with a flurry of shows and a block of studio time with producer Shooter Jennings in Los Angeles, all while Barham finalizes …
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O ne day in May 1988, Antoine Le Grand, a photographer in Paris, was sent on a mysterious assignment for a culture magazine called Globe. Two young men had called the office claiming to be the culprits in one of rock’s most legendary heists: the recent theft of a 300-pound …
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On a picturesque morning in late July, the rapper Aminé is perched at a cobalt-blue dining table in his airy Hollywood home. As he and three close collaborators fine-tune the artist’s upcoming set lists, one of his most important musical inspirations gazes out at them from a wall flanked by …
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“I’m a bit of a troublemaker,” says Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows. The self-described atheist is referencing the reaction to a video message he recorded for Israeli hostages Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal, welcoming the two men home after two years in captivity. Gilboa-Dalal, who was 22 when kidnapped by …
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When the NFL, Roc Nation, and Apple Music announced that Bad Bunny would be the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, the noise started almost immediately. On one side, there were cheers and excitement: His fans recognized the historic nature of the performance, which will go down in the books as …
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In the mid-1980s, when Charley Pride was in between record contracts, he went into a Dallas studio with an all-star cast of area musicians to record a series of songs by Brook Benton. He intended to turn the project into a tribute album to the R&B mainstay and “Rainy Night …
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Todd Snider is in pain. And fans hoping to catch the gritty, live-it-to-the-hilt storyteller in person would be wise to catch the full-band tour he is launching at the end of October in support of High, Lonesome and Then Some, his just released new album. After more than three decades …
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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Tame Impala return back to their chill electro-pop ways, Haim continue to unravel the complexities of fuckin’ relationships with two new tracks for their I Quit deluxe, …
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Last March, Sam Westhoff, who performs under the moniker Haffway, stood beneath a lone spotlight onstage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and delivered a song about struggling to slow down. The performance, an opening slot on Bear Rinehart’s Wilder Woods Tour, was as bare-bones as the way Westhoff was …
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Well before Ghost and Sleep Token took anonymity to the extreme, Kiss kept rock & roll fans guessing with simple makeup and high heels. But no matter how obscured Ace Frehley’s human face and torso may have been, it was easy to discern that a comedian with crackerjack timing lived …
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