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Alex Warren’s breakthrough single, “Ordinary,” has a backstory made for TV. The 24-year-old artist wrote it about his wife, Kouvr Annon, whom he started dating when they were both 18. It wasn’t the best time to jump into something so new and intense. He’d already experienced the grief of losing …

When we talked on Zoom last month, rapper DDG had just been streaming on Twitch for a week straight. During that time, he’d invited guests like Shaboozey and DaBaby to his studio for a 7-day “Hit-A-Thon,” where they’d record songs for his then-upcoming album Blame the Chat, which dropped last …

John Legend has opened up about his falling out with Kanye West in a new interview, and speculated on the event that “accelerated” his former friend and collaborator’s “descent.” Following a pair of self-released albums at the onset of his career, Legend received a major boost after signing with West’s …

Vampire Weekend headlined Pasadena festival Just Like Heaven last night, and along with delivering their own songs, they dedicated a portion of their set to give a “salute to indie.” The band have recently been taking crowd requests for snippets of covers. This time, they handpicked the groups and songs …

For years, people told Adam Duritz not to bother releasing full albums, that “nobody wants to listen to ’em anymore.” So he released Counting Crows‘ most ambitious music ever —an interlocked, glam-rock-infused four-song sequence — as an EP, 2021’s Butter Miracle, Suite One. “But I found that there was a …

There’s a dark stage, with a few handfuls of dirt scattered here and there. But as the lights come up, what first looks like an empty landscape transforms into a perfect tableau of a Kentucky skyline at dawn. Thus begins Floyd Collins, the newest musical at the Lincoln Center’s Vivian …

Johnny Rodriguez, the first country star of Mexican American descent known for such recordings as “You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)” and “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico,” died Friday after entering hospice care. He was 73. His daughter confirmed Rodriguez’s death in a social media post. “It is with …

Alice in Chains have canceled the remainder of their tour and upcoming festival appearances after drummer Sean Kinney suffered “a medical emergency” earlier this week. Earlier this week, the grunge band canceled their tour-opening concert in Uncasville, Connecticut hours before showtime after Kinney “experienced a non-life-threatening medical emergency” shortly after …

John Mulaney has learned a few things about life from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This sounds like the setup for a joke. But the comedian, late-night host, and low-key music obsessive has long been fascinated with the Cleveland institution, the artists it deems worthy for inclusion (or …

Follow all our Sean Combs trial coverage Sean “Diddy” Combs admitted he was a “little nervous” in the run-up to his criminal trial, as the hip-hop mogul looked into the eyes of the potential jurors who will render a verdict on the sex trafficking and racketeering charges against him. The …