The charity organization Teenage Cancer Trust will continue its long-running series of benefit concerts in 2026 with a lineup curated by the Cure‘s Robert Smith. The musician takes over the role from co-founder Roger Daltrey, who stepped down last year after helming curation duties for 24 years. “Teenage Cancer Trust …
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At the core of Jim Legxacy’s music is a potent clarity of emotion. The London-based musician’s 2023 mixtape Homeless N**ga Pop Music deployed samples like globs of glitter spread across a posterboard: a Miley Cyrus song, the watermark for a Nigerian MP3 website, a snippet from the U.K. grime classic …
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Jack Harlow and Doja Cat are teaming up for a new song that’s dropping this Friday, March 21. Harlow announced the song, titled “Just Us,” on social media. He also shared what appeared to be the cover art, which showed the two musicians chatting in a restaurant kitchen (the photo …
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Wunderhorse frontman Jacob Slater’s Wi-Fi is spotty— “Fucking nightmare on my end,” he says. He’s taking this Zoom call from the south of Morocco, where he’s spent the last four Januarys “surfing and doing nothing else.” The 28-year-old U.K. musician has grown accustomed to this kind of reset every so …
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A few years ago, Jasmine Cruickshank found herself adrift. After coming out as trans, the English singer-songwriter got divorced and decamped from Bristol to Manchester, where she slept on floors and discovered a new wellspring of inspiration: her true self. “I really struggled, in the years leading up to my …
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The Linda Lindas have released a music video for “Don’t Think,” a technicolor-tinged video with lyrics that critique the pressure of conforming to societal norms. The Kiki Banta and Marlowe Taylor-directed clip was filmed over two weekends in the backyard and home of one of the bandmates. “This video was …
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There are five versions of Rachel Chinouriri on the cover of her debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events. One is settled on the edge of a love seat in the front yard, scribbling notes into a journal. Another is carrying a few bags to the trash. A third …
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In an era when more music is being released each day than in the entire year of 1989, according to one estimate, it takes a singular talent to cut through the noise. Enter Hanumankind, the curly-haired, tatted-up, India-born rapper who broke through last summer with his viral single “Big Dawgs,” …
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Tina Knowles will embark on a nine-city tour this spring in support of her upcoming memoir titled Matriarch, out on April 22. The book launch will take place in Washington, D.C. on April 30 with former First Lady Michelle Obama sitting down with Knowles as the event’s moderator. “I’m still …
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Before the viral Tiny Desk session that put them on the map last year as one of the most exhilarating acts in Latin music, the duo of childhood friends CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso toiled in obscurity for seven years, honing their craft in their native Buenos Aires with underground rock …
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