With the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires as a dramatic backdrop, A$AP Rocky’s criminal trial over charges he fired shots at his former friend A$AP Relli on a Hollywood, California, street three years ago remains on track to start next week. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark S. …
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Perfume Genius will return this spring with an album that he’s describing as one of the boldest artistic statements of his 15-year career. Glory, out March 28 on his longtime label Matador Records, is the seventh studio album from Mike Hadreas’ long-running art-rock project. Lead single “It’s a Mirror” features …
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With Southern rock, in all its varieties, having a renaissance, one of the pioneers of the genre is heading back on the road. On Wednesday, the Marshall Tucker Band announced a spring tour with JJ Grey & Mofro, the swamp blues-rock band from Florida. Dubbed The Ramblin’ Rooster Tour, the …
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2025 is officially the Year of Lucy Dacus. The singer-songwriter, fresh off her massive, Grammy-winning success with boygenius, will release the new solo album Forever Is a Feeling, out March 28 via Geffen Records. To preview the album, Dacus shared two excellent new tracks: “Ankles” and “Limerence.” The former is …
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Ten years ago, Leighton Meester was on the road for the Heartstrings tour. The actress had released her debut album a few months prior, and the run of live shows supporting it kept her away from home for eight weeks as she performed for hundreds of fans each night. A …
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Drake has formalized his contentious battle against Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us” by going after Universal Music Group, filing a defamation and harassment lawsuit against the major music conglomerate on Wednesday. The Canadian-born rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, claims UMG “unleashed every weapon in its …
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Bad Bunny doesn’t want to leave Puerto Rico — he proclaimed as much on his LP Un Verano Sin Ti as well as on his latest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Earlier this week, the Latin star announced a 21-show residency at the iconic “El Choli” Coliseo de Puerto Rico, …
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Nashville is reaching peak Ringo. On the heels of his new country album, Look Up, Ringo Starr will make his Grand Ole Opry debut next month. The former Beatles drummer was invited to perform on the long-running country-music radio show by Emmylou Harris, herself an Opry member. Harris popped the …
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Peter Forrest — who, as P. Fluid, was lead singer and frontman of the pioneering Black rock band 24/7 Spyz — has died at the age of 64. On Jan. 14th, Forrest’s body was found badly beaten in the back of an abandoned ambulette bus in the Bronx. Forrest, who …
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Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory will release their self-titled debut album in just over three weeks. In the meantime, the band has previewed the record once more with “Trouble,” the latest single released alongside a live performance video captured live at the Church Studios in London. “’Trouble’ is …
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