Music

Paul Cauthen makes a bold, swaggering declaration of his bona fides in his new single “Country as Fuck,” the first release from Country Coming Down, the Texas native’s third full-length album. For the man nicknamed “Big Velvet,” the groove-driven “Country as Fuck” feels like a natural extension of his larger-than-life …

Paul Simon has yet to write a proper autobiography but has cooperated with Malcolm Gladwell and New York Times writer Bruce Headlam for the upcoming “audio biography” Miracle and Wonder: Conversations With Paul Simon. It’s a nine-part series that touches on every era of Simon’s life and career, and features …

I t started as a vocal booth. A decade before Marilyn Manson rented the apartment above a West Hollywood liquor store circa 2010, a former tenant — a label and recording studio specializing in electronic music — had built the cramped glass enclosure in the corner of a room with …

“You shoulda known better to fuck with someone like me,” Avril Lavigne sings on “Bite Me,” her return single. “Forever and ever you’re going to wish I was your wifey.” “Bite Me,” Lavigne’s debut on Travis Barker‘s label DTA Records, shows the Canadian musician harking back to her early pop-punk …

Summer Walker’s music evokes the spirit of the blues. The 25-year-old Atlanta native has a writing ability reminiscent of Bessie Smith’s descriptive love narratives, deeply personal but at the same time reflecting universal emotions and desires. Walker’s 2019 debut, Over It, was the most-streamed album by a female artist since …

Houston officials said on Saturday they were still trying to determine what initially set off the crowd surge that killed eight people, including two teenagers, during Travis Scott‘s sold-out Astroworld Fest on Friday night. During a news conference on Saturday, police released the victims’ ages: 14, 16, 21, 21, 23, …

It’s been a decade since Sonic Youth played their final show, but they’re not letting a little thing like that stop them from standing up for abortion rights in Texas. The influential New York band announced today that they are releasing two vintage concerts via Bandcamp to raise funds for …

More than three years since releasing their acclaimed album Years, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers have a new album on the way. The North Carolina group’s forthcoming project Nightroamer will be released Feb. 18 and includes the lean, propulsive rocker “Talkin’ to Myself,” which is out today alongside an accompanying …

Ronnie Wilson, co-founding member and multi-instrumentalist for the legendary R&B and funk group the Gap Band, has died at the age of 73. Wilson’s wife Linda Boulware-Wilson confirmed her husband’s death on Tuesday on social media, “The love of my life was called home this morning, at 10:01 a.m. Please …

Jay-Z, one of rap’s most innovative and trailblazing stars, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday, Oct. 30th. The rapper earned his Rock Hall spot on his first year of eligibility, as his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, turned 25 in 2021. Over the past two-and-a-half decades, …