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Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to Earl.” The Wood Brothers’ lead singer then delivered a moving version of “Postcards from Hell,” off their 2008 album Loaded. It was

Could OT5 Fifth Harmony come back together? On Monday morning, Camila Cabello shared some love and celebrated the reunion of her former groupmates — Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane, Lauren Jauregui, and Normani — after a seven-year hiatus. The night prior, Fifth Harmony reunited onstage at JoBros’ show in Dallas. Cabello, who left the group in

Wedding bells will be ringing soon for David Byrne. On Monday, the former Talking Heads frontman revealed that he’ll be tying the knot this week, just a few weeks after revealing that he is engaged to Mala Gaonkar, and also shared a playlist of instrumental songs that will play at his wedding dinner. “I’m getting

The three-block stretch between Columbus Circle and Grand Army Plaza just on the southern border of Central Park is so busy that it’s hard to know where to look. Near the entrance on 59th street, horse-drawn carriage drivers vie for the attention of tourists, while across the road, serious-looking people in business attire idle in

Ross Harris is honoring his cousin Liam Payne with a new song. On Sunday, the musician released “Bones,” a track he wrote in tribute to Payne about the difficulties of dealing with grief. “I’ve been back and forth about releasing this song a dozen times. It’s the most personal thing I’ve ever written – which

Lil Nas X‘s father, Robert Stafford, has spoken out following the arrest of his son last week. Stafford discussed the incident with The Times over the weekend, describing the rapper’s breakdown as the price of fame. “I understand how the music business is,” Stafford said. “It’s like a high. When you get to that level,

If Margo Price is taking a sharp turn into her traditional country roots, rest assured that “I’m a hard-headed woman/and I don’t owe you shit” will be the first words on the resulting album. “We need those songs. We need a candle in the darkness right now,” Price tells Rolling Stone of Hard Headed Woman,

The Eras Tour proved to be a proper training camp for dancer Jan Ravnik, who is ready to enter his Dancing With the Stars era. “I traveled all around the world with the Eras Tour and now I’m coming to the ballroom stage with ‘Dancing With the Stars,’” Ravnik told Good Morning America of joining

Last year, during the promotional cycle for her latest album, Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande responded to inquiries about a potential tour with uncertainty. Her last run of shows, in support of both Sweetener and Thank U Next, was nearly six years ago — and they were emotionally draining for the singer. Grande expressed a need

More than 25 years after contributing Vol. 4 song to The Osbournes soundtrack, SOAD revisit Black Sabbath classic at MetLife Stadium System of a Down paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne during the band’s concert on Wednesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with a rendition of Black Sabbath’s “Snowblind.” The MetLife Stadium gig, the band’s first

Hayley Williams has always been bold — from her brightly-hued hair dye to her kickass attitude as the lead singer of Paramore. When it comes to music, the singer is equally unafraid. She belts her heart out and spits brutally honest lyrics across the band’s discography and her own solo albums, 2020’s Petals for Armor

The record originally arrived as 17 singles that fans built their own tracklist with The 17 singles Hayley Williams released earlier this month have lived in distinct formats across thousands of playlists created by fans. Shaping their own structure around the loose records, some opened their tracklist with the gritty “Hard,” while others opted to

“Sometimes people hear the lyrics that are really bold, and they go, ‘I don’t want to sing this in front of other people.’ It’s like it’s almost too TMI,” the singer tells CBS Mornings Sabrina Carpenter warned that the provocative lyrics on her upcoming album Man’s Best Friend might not be for prude-minded people in

PinkPantheress doesn’t think anyone would be too surprised by the collection of songs saved to her phone. Her own records are often erratic, moving quickly from one idea to the next. It makes sense, then, that when she let Rolling Stone sift through her library on the latest installment of Song Shuffle, the results yielded

Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson mixes Nashville storytelling, folk-ish pop, and rock meltdowns on her great third album Euro-Country “Another good idea/I saved the messages you sent the night you tried to sleep with her/Happy new year,” Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson — a.k.a. the Irish singer-songwriter CMAT — coos at the outset of “Tree Six Foive,”

“The company that bills itself as the steward of all recorded music has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that it does not align with the band’s values in any way,” their founder shared Shoegaze-influenced band Hotline TNT has become the latest in a series of musicians to pull their music from Spotify. In

Sombr has New York City under his spell. The 20-year-old had jusr stepped onto a stage assembled on Canal Street to the sound of piercing screams. His debut album I Barely Know Her was scheduled for release in a few hours, but the musician wanted the first introduction of these songs to happen on the

5 Seconds of Summer frontman Luke Hemmings and songwriter Sierra Deaton have welcomed their first child together. On Instagram, the couple offered a glimpse into their private life as they shared a carousel of images celebrating their baby girl. “Our best kept secret,” they captioned the post. “Written and Produced by Sierra and Luke Hemmings.”

Rauw Alejandro is facing a new lawsuit accusing him of not obtaining licenses for samples of several songs by reggaeton pioneer DJ Playero across his 2022 album, Saturno. Notably, the lawsuit was not brought by DJ Playero — who actively collaborated with Alejandro on Saturno — but BM Records, a Florida-based distributor and label that

“I knew I wanted to push myself on this new album,” the musician shared in a statement about the record, out Oct. 17 Australian pop musician Ruel is falling head over heels for his second studio album, Kicking My Feet. The 22-year-old will release the record on Oct. 17 as the follow-up to his debut

Police detained 23-year-old Julio Cesar Lopez Zavala after video appeared to show him allegedly punching a woman in the crowd at the Rose Bowl A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting fellow concertgoers during a Rüfüs Du Sol show at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles over the weekend, the Los Angeles

Back in his hometown of Dallas, rapper BigXthaPlug was hosting a release party for his third studio album, I Hope You’re Happy, his take on country. But just hours later, though, at 2:20 a.m. on Friday, X, born Xavier Landum, was arrested and booked on charges of marijuana possession (less than two ounces) and unlawful

The night after J’ouvert, the pinnacle of Grenada’s annual carnival, I cried and cried. All over the Caribbean and throughout its diaspora, the consecutive days of reverie known as carnival or mas are traditions rooted in African ancestral connection and resistance to colonization and slavery. This weekend, Londoners will celebrate Notting Hill Carnival, a multi-cultural

The Last Dinner Party have pulled out of their set at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, England today (Aug. 23), in solidarity with the Mary Wallopers, whose set was cut short on Friday after the Irish band showed their support for Palestine. “We are outraged by the decision made to silence the Mary Wallopers yesterday at

Mastodon paid tribute to their co-founder and former guitarist Brent Hinds during their show at Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska, on Friday. It was their first performance since Hinds died on Wednesday at the age of 51. “We lost somebody very special to us yesterday,” drummer Brann Dailor said of Hinds, whodiedin a motorcycle

It’s in the tight confines of a spare room in his Los Angeles home that singer-songwriter Dijon Duenas, known professionally as just Dijon, constructed his 2021 debut, Absolutely, a delicate patchwork of sonic vignettes, bursting at the seams with emotion. The record was suffused with the texture of the environment in which it was created

The first slate of performers for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards have been announced, with Sabrina Carpenter, J Balvin, and Alex Warren all set to take the stage. For Carpenter, she’ll be returning to the VMAs after making her debut at the show last year, where she also won Song of the Year for

The Who began the North American leg of their The Song Is Over farewell tour Saturday evening at the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida. And even though this isn’t technically a Who’s Next tour, their set featured seven of the nine songs from the 1971 landmark LP. That includes “Going Mobile,” which the Who

Fresh off an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week and the surprise drop of their fifth studio album, Chain Yer Dragon, jam-band juggernaut Goose headlined the Park City Song Summit in Utah this past weekend. Established in 2019 as a conduit to create and cultivate dialogue about the state of mental/physical

Last year, Mendes made a surprise appearance to perform “Treat You Better” during Horan’s headlining show in London If the whole world were watching, Niall Horan and Shawn Mendes would still make surprise appearances at each other’s concerts. Mendes recently kicked off the On the Road Again Tour, his first time back on the road