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The Lowdown Drifters aren’t living up to their name. The Fort Worth, Texas, band has been surging since the latter half of 2024. “We’ve had two year’s worth of growth in six months,” John Cannon deadpans. In October, the Drifters supported Silverada on a run of theaters and large clubs …

If you can’t beat them, eat them. That’s essentially what an ambitious, try-anything songwriter and a young rock band from Pennsylvania were thinking back in 1970 when they teamed up to write and record a song about trapped miners who kill and devour their friend. “Timothy” was a last-ditch effort …

I n the early morning of July 21, 2024, Mahali Khuluoe, 22, was at home dozing when her phone rang. The person on the other end of the line was her father’s friend — his voice was tight and hesitant. “Where’s your dad?” he asked. “He left yesterday but hasn’t …

On a glowering November morning — sky bruising, wind whipping, rain threatening — Coldplay’s Will Champion shows up at Sydney’s Coogee Beach as a perfect counterpoint to the weather. The drummer is sunny and solicitous under his trucker hat, strolling along the famous path toward Bondi with a gentleness and …

Kicking off 2025 with a bang, Lil Baby just dropped his new project WHAM, which he began teasing towards the end of last year, and which features a who’s who in hip-hop joining one of its ascendant stars on a declarative new project. While 2024 was dominated by a beef …

To close 2024, we’re focusing on Mutant Academy, a Richmond rap collective that had a strong calendar year and is looking to push even further after the release of Keep Holly Alive, a November project that the crew views as its first official group album. The nine-man collective features rappers …

At the end of Kendrick Lamar’s Juneteenth Pop-Out concert, he organized a group picture with dozens of artists, children, entertainers, and gang affiliates who convened onstage with him while he performed his Drake diss “Not Like Us” five times. “You ain’t seen this many sections keepin’ it together and havin’ …

I n my 45 years on Earth, I’ve never seen a person place this order at a restaurant. Flavor Flav is at the Millennium Hilton near the United Nations in New York the day before Thanksgiving. He’s in town to catch the Macy’s parade with his family and attend to …

One of the first signs that Jimmy Carter was not your average politician came in January 1974. Already a Bob Dylan fan, the then-governor of Georgia was in the audience at Atlanta’s Omni Coliseum to see Bob Dylan and the Band on their historic tour. Afterward, the musicians, promoter Bill …

It’s become commonplace for presidents and politicians to consort with musicians, but that was not the case in the Seventies, when the two worlds barely collided. Starting with his run for governor of Georgia in the Sixties and continuing through his presidential campaign the following decade, Jimmy Carter proudly and …