The excitement outside of New York’s Beacon Theatre was palpable on Thursday night. Hours before Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians franchise took over the Upper West Side venue, fans lined up on the sidewalk off Amsterdam Avenue. Some played patty-cake to pass the time before doors opened, while others sported …
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Charley Crockett is making a career out of being underestimated, either by the business or by his very own fans. This past week, he proved that again with a three-night residency at one of Manhattan’s most exclusive and longest-running supper clubs, the Café Carlyle on the Upper East Side. This …
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“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 …
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Sabrina Carpenter’s four-song set at her Grand Ole Opry debut included the words or phrases “motherfucker,” “well, fuck,” and “fuck my life,” but fans at the 100-year-old country-music radio show didn’t have to clutch their pearls. As Carpenter admitted, they were getting the Opry edits. “You’re so wholesome here in …
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It’s been a while since Shawn Mendes has felt this close. He’s standing in the bleachers at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium while upwards of 12,000 people sing along to “Stitches” at the latest stop on his On the Road Again Tour. The unconventional seating arrangement at the venue allows …
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In true NBA YoungBoy fashion, the number of songs he performed at Monday’s show in Newark, New Jersey, was almost overwhelming. You might feel a sensory overload, but you will never be bored by the Baton Rouge rapper’s compulsion, appetites, or his enduring melancholy that exist in the fog of …
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Since its start in 2015, the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival in Franklin, Tennessee, has pulled off the tricky task of being both a hip, taste-making festival and appealing to everyday fans and even families. That balancing act was on full display this weekend when rockers like headliners like John …
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Zach Bryan was only a few songs into his show at Ann Arbor’s Michigan Stadium on Saturday when he shouted, “Thank you so much for the best night of my life.” And later, during “Dawns,” he marveled, “This might be the craziest thing I’ve ever done.” What could be so …
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“New directions are happening,” Charlie Puth sang Thursday night in the excellent new song “Changes,” and he wasn’t kidding. In the first show of a four-night residency at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club, he debuted sleek songs from an-as-yet-announced new album, and unveiled stripped-down, jazzed-up versions of hits from …
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“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 …
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