Last week, Riz Story filed a lawsuit against Yes, claiming the prog-rock legends stole portions of his song “Reunion” from his 2014 film A Winter Rose for their own tune “Dare To Know.” On Monday (Nov. 18), lead vocalist Jon Davison addressed the accusations with a statement ,
From Entertainer of the Year to New Artist, all the winners at the 58th Country Music Association awards
Earlier this year, the Department Of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster. Yet today, the Mass Leads Act was signed in Massachusetts, a bill that ultimately strengthens Ticketmaster’s monopoly.
It has arrived. The Coachella Festival , America’s largest and most consequential live-music marathon, has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition, complete with a poster full of fascinating font-size politics. Coachella usually doesn’t unveil its lineup until January, but
The musician visited the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss as part of a new interview with CBS Mornings
Charli XCX, Ivan Cornejo, the Misfits, Megan Thee Stallion, and Missy Elliott are also scheduled to perform
The Puerto Rican stars talk about learning from their mistakes and outlasting their competition
Stephin Merritt powered through a head cold as the band performed songs like "All My Little Words," "Reno Dakota," and "The Book of Love"
The first part of Cher's revealing new book sheds light on her troubled childhood, her tumultuous marriage, and more
Patterson Hood’s last solo album Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance arrived way back in 2012. Today, the Drive-By Truckers co-founder has announced its follow-up Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams , arriving in February. The lead single “A Werewolf And A Girl” is out now.
After his music festival’s 10th anniversary and his new album’s streak on top of the charts, it’s time to consider Tyler one of the best ever to do it
"Rather than me ‘stealing’ this generic piece of music ... that I have never heard before this lawsuit, it appears that they are trying to ‘steal’ a credit on our album," Davison says
Michael Stipe (unsurprisingly) said the band “could not be more honored, more flattered, more humbled”
The Vermont rocker Greg Freeman has been growing in stature lately, in large part thanks to the slow-burn success of his 2022 debut album I Looked Out . (His ripping performance at our Austin party this year did not hurt.) Today Freeman has announced his signing to
The dark pop single will be featured on Gaga’s forthcoming album, set to release February 2025
Verbose album titles are back in. It’s all thanks to Courting, who earned our revered Band To Watch title for the release of their album New Last Name in January and are already announcing its follow-up today, called Lust For Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The
The musical, which opened at the Longacre Theatre on Tuesday evening, features music from the folk-rock band’s 2004 studio album, Mignonette
Based on name alone, you might assume that Kingston, New York’s Open Head make extremely gnarly beatdown. That would be incorrect. Open Head’s music isn’t devoid of gnarl, but it falls more on the blurry post-punk side of things. Early next year, they’ll release their new album
The Olympia, Washington musician Ben Funkhouser, better known as fish narc, is a key member of GothBoiClique, the storied emo-rap crew. He was one of the late GBC leader Lil Peep’s go-to producers, and he’s done a lot of work across genres, including collaborations with late
Post Malone is also set to headline the festival’s Sunday nights
At 83, Paul Simon is a living legend of American popular music. Simon has remained artistically active later in life, but he’s been suffering from catastrophic hearing loss in the past few years. Simon has been open about his problems with hearing , which helped inspire his
The musician’s forthcoming concept album is also heavily inspired by the Nic Cage horror flick Mandy
On The Green Room , the British singer-songwriter and producer explains how she approaches carving out space for herself while holding space for complicated emotions
In 2003, the alt-country hero Gillian Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings wrote a beautiful acoustic reverie called “I Made A Lovers Prayer,” and Welch included it on her Rawlings-produced album Soul Journey . Now, the Megafaun member and Bon Iver/Waxahatchee
The lineup for next year’s Coachella festival seems to be coming together, and it’s looking… well, it’s looking weird. According to various reports, Coachella is going all-in on mainstream starpower for next year’s edition. Last month, Bloomberg claimed that both Kendrick Lamar
We just crowned World News one of the Best New Artists Of 2024 , having been big fans of the London post-punks’ May EP Escape . Not even six months later, they’ll be back with another EP this Friday called Mindsnap . We’ve heard quite a bit of it already — the title track , “
Breeders frontwoman and former Pixie got help from a lot of old friends on the album, but somehow it feels more like a self-portrait than her earlier work
Vashti Bunyan’s reemergence might’ve been the first real miracle of the early-’00s freak-folk movement. The English folk musician Bunyan released her debut album Just Another Diamond Day in 1970, and when it didn’t sell, she disappeared from music and went off to raise her
The MC was known for songs like "Light Sleeper," collaborating with Xzibit, and taking on a whole rival crew during a famous freestyle battle
Richard Russell came aboard at the London label XL Recordings in the early ’90s, when it released “ The Bouncer ,” the rave anthem from his duo Kicks Like A Mule. Since then, Russell ascended to label-boss status and oversaw XL as it became a fixture in many different forms of
Genesis’ landmark album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway turns 50 years old this year. Today, they’ve announced they’re marking the occasion with a new Super Deluxe Edition of the double LP, featuring a full remaster, a new Dolby ATMOS mix, a recording of an entire 1975 concert,
In 1974, we took a little trip with the powerhouse vocalist with the five-octave range: “What can I tell ya? I’m a freak”
The musical, co-created with Jake Shears, will close on Dec. 8 after 24 previews and 29 regular performances
The Weather Station kicked off October with the announcement of Humanhood , the follow-up to 2022’s How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars . The project of Toronto musician Tamara Lindeman released the lead single “ Neon Signs ,” which was so wonderful that it topped our
On the road with the rodeo competitor and onetime prison guard, who’s convinced that his brand of traditional country can help heal a great divide
Out in February 2025, the deluxe set of the Grammy-winning album will include more than 65 unreleased recordings and a full 2004 concert
Wilco’s cloudy-headed masterpiece A Ghost Is Born turned 20 this year, and like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot before it , the album will get a deluxe reissue celebrating that anniversary.
In 2015, Miley Cyrus was coming off of the huge success of her post-Disney pop move Bangerz , the album that had “We Can’t Stop” and “ Wrecking Ball .” She followed that record up with a hard zag: Miley Cyrus And Her Dead Petz , a wildly indulgent free-download surprise-release
The Brattleboro, Vermont, quartet behind the new album All Pleasure are one of 2024’s most exciting bands. After years of hard work, they’re going all-in on joy
People have been concerned about Conor Oberst lately. Earlier this fall, Oberst’s band Bright Eyes released their new album Five Dice, All Threes , and just before it came out, the band canceled all their tour dates for the year. The band cited Oberst’s “vocal problems,” but
Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Zayn Malik paid their respects at the service, also attended by Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell, James Corden, and more friends and family
It will feature a remastered version of the album, a new Dolby ATMOS mix, and a complete Lamb tour show taped at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones , and it’s for members only. Thank
The singer thanked Carpenter for playing her “fave song” “Lie to Girls” during the concert
The musician's new album, Cosa Nuestra , dropped last week
Meet Witch Post, the new duo of Scottish musician Dylan Fraser and LA singer-songwriter Alaska Reid who’s also known for collaborations with A. G. Cook. On Friday (Nov. 15), they released their debut song “Chill Out,” and it’s an ecstatic, rebellious burst of grungy indie rock.
Five more anonymous accusers — three men and two women — claim they were drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs in alleged incidents dating back to 2001
From Horse Jumper Of Love’s sprawling Disaster Trick to Shower Curtain’s poignant words from a wishing well , it’s been a good year for fuzzy guitars. Now, Oklahoma City’s some fear are here to offer their distorted tunes with their eponymous debut album. The band previously
In June, Goat Girl shared their third album Below The Waste . Since then, the UK post-punk trio has expanded into a quartet to include new member Ruby Kyriakides, and now they’re sharing the apocalyptic slowburner “Gossip.”