Music

Country Music Hall of Fame member Connie Smith will release her new album The Cry of the Heart via Fat Possum Records in 2021. The album’s first single, the rollicking “Look Out Heart,” is out now. Written by Smith’s husband Marty Stuart with Fabulous Superlatives drummer Harry Stinson and produced …

Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin are now set to embark on a co-headlining tour of North America this fall. The pair were supposed to go on tour last year, but the dates were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The new 26-date run features a handful of rescheduled shows — …

This summer, Joni Mitchell will release The Reprise Albums (1968-1971), the second installment of her archive series. It contains reissues of her first four albums to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Blue — her final release on Reprise before she signed to Asylum Records. Mitchell’s Seventies albums on Asylum are …

During the past year, the virtual jam — wherein a group of artists each claim their own corner of a 16:9 YouTube screen to rock out in isolation, together — has become as ubiquitous as Zoom conference calls, online schooling, and any other pandemic-era activity. Pearl Jam did it for …

Last year, in the middle of pandemic lockdown, Milo Aukerman got a unique opportunity: the chance to sing a handful of songs that he never even knew existed from the back catalog of the Descendents, the pioneering California punk outfit he’s fronted on and off for more than 40 years. …

Lil Nas X has announced that he’ll be performing his hit single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” along with a new song, during his musical guest slot on the May 22nd episode of Saturday Night Live. Anya Taylor-Joy is set to host. The singer and rapper’s appearance will mark the …

System of a Down’s Serj Tankian has released the new music video for “Rumi,” a track of his recent solo EP Elasticity. The song is a tribute to Tankian’s six-year-old son and the 13th century Sufi poet Rumi, for whom Tankian named his son. Tankian doesn’t often share the lyrics …

The Flaming Lips have shared a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” from the upcoming compilation, Dylan Revisited, which will be released alongside the June issue of the British magazine Uncut. The Flaming Lips’ cover of “Lay Lady Lay” is at once reverent to the original Nashville Skyline track …

OK Go has released the first in a series of six music videos that will stitch together footage of people around the world playing the band’s 2020 song “All Together Now.” The project has its roots in the quarantine creation of “All Together Now,” which the members of OK Go …

Even in the Sixties, Eric Andersen was never a typical troubadour. Harper’s once described him as sporting “high cheekbones like Rudolf Nureyev’s,” and he eschewed folk sing-alongs for his own sensuous ballads, like “Violets of Dawn,” “Thirsty Boots,” and “Close the Door Lightly When You Go.” The Beatles’ Brian Epstein …