Music

“No men, just sugar.” Clementine Creevy is reading the ingredients of a candy bar she keeps on a shelf in her living room. “Crush men, eat candy,” she continues with a grin as she turns it over to read the other side. The treat is a merch item for the …

Born 84 years ago today in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis Presley transfixed millions of fans (and outraged many others) with his rock & roll swagger before most of them had any idea what rock & roll was or would become in popular culture. His incendiary stage presence notwithstanding, Presley’s Southern roots …

In 2006, four years after Waylon Jennings‘ death, New West Records released a live album featuring the outlaw legend’s April 1st, 1989 appearance on the long-running PBS music series Austin City Limits. Jennings was himself at a personal crossroads in early ’89 — having already battled his addiction to cocaine, …

Backstreet Boys celebrate domesticity in their homespun video for new single “No Place.” The breezy cut appears on the vocal group’s upcoming 10th LP, DNA, out January 25th. Throughout the clip, each of the band’s five members –AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell – hang …

Queen guitarist Brian May released a new song on New Year’s Eve to mark the voyage of the New Horizons space probe as it passed by the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule. It’s the farthest object in the solar system that a spacecraft has visited, and it took 12 years to …

Independent Chicago rapper Noname kicked off the new year by unveiling her first new song of 2019, “Song 31.” It’s also her first new music since releasing Room 25, named one of Rolling Stone‘s Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2018. Over winsome, jazz-tipped melodies, the rapper poetically rhymes about the drive …

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and Dunkirk director Christopher Nolan were among the more than 1,100 people recognized on Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s Honours list, which annuallyhonors “the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.” Mason, the lone Pink Floyd member to appear on every one of …

Lin-Manuel Miranda is marking the final installment of his Hamildrop series with a remake of Hamilton‘s “One Last Time” and he’s brought out some massive guests, including former president Barack Obama and actor Christopher Jackson with production from gospel great BeBe Winans and Alex Lacamoire. Aptly named the “44 Remix” …

In the lead-up to Super Bowl LIII, which kicks off on February 3rd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, the three-night Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest will take place at the city’s State Farm Arena, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Aerosmith, Ludacris and Bruno Mars are among the festival’s performers. It …

Four women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault against former Das Racist rapper Victor “Kool A.D.” Vasquez. Speaking to Pitchfork, the four women, including Vasquez’s estranged wife Saba Moeel, alleged instances of non-consensual sexual activity that occurred between 2006 and 2015. Moeel previously aired her allegations against Vasquez, …