Music

There’s a scene near the beginning of the final episode of Of Mics and Men, Showtime’s four-part docuseries on Wu-Tang Clan premiering Friday night, that finds the crew — older, wiser, calmer — sitting around a large table enjoying a group meal. For the past three episodes, we’ve seen the …

Rival Sons appeared on The Late Late Show to perform their raucous single “Too Bad.” The Los Angeles rock band, who recently released a music video for the track, kept it simple as they delivered an impassioned rendition of the bluesy, garage-inspired anthem. In the clip, frontman Jay Buchanan writhes …

Africa Express, a musical collective led by Damon Albarn, will release a new album, EGOLI, on July 12 via Africa Express Records. The album will feature appearances by Gruff Rhys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, Georgia and several South African artists. Albarn previewed the release with a new song, “Johannesburg,” …

Farruko, Gangalee | ★★★ Karol G, Ocean| ★★★ All eyes are on the globe-trotting exploits of the Bad Bunny’s and the Balvin’s, but it’s actually Farruko, a 28-year-old Puerto Rican rapper-singer, who has the year’s biggest Latin hit so far. That would be his remix of Pedro Capó’s “Calma,” a …

UPDATE: Logic will release his new album Confessions of a Dangerous Mind this Friday, May 10th, the rapper revealed on Twitter. Logic and Eminem have teamed for new song “Homicide.” The track marks the first time the rappers have collaborated on a song together. They may have murderous words on …

New Jersey punk band Titus Andronicus released their new single “Tumult Around the World” on Wednesday, the closing number from their upcoming sixth albumAn Obelisk. The accompanying visual shows frontman Patrick Stickles calmly listening to the rowdy new track on a vintage record player, while sipping coffee and hanging out …

On July 28th, Joan Baez will walk offstage at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, and wrap up her career as a live performer almost exactly 60 years after making her debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. The show will be the culmination of a farewell tour that’s kept …

Puerto Rican-Dominican superstar Ozuna performed the brand new remix of his 2019 single “Baila Baila Baila” live on Thursday at the 2019 Billboard Latin Music Awards. He was joined onstage by fellow urbano power players Daddy Yankee, J Balvin and Anuel AA — who featured alongside Farruko in the official …

Texas-based Americana power couple Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis will usher in the summer with the release of Beautiful Lie, their fourth album as a duo. Out June 21st on Robison’s the Next Waltz label, it’s the pair’s follow-up to the 2014 collaboration Our Year. The album’s first single “Nobody’s …

The news came out this morning that Bruce Springsteen‘s long-awaited new solo disc is called Western Stars, and it draws heavy inspiration from the California pop scene of the Seventies, specifically artists like Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach. “I don’t know if people will hear those influences,” he told Variety …