Music

YG celebrates wealth and style on his new all-star single “Big Bank,” featuring Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz and Big Sean. Mustard produced the minimalist, marimba-laced track, which revolves around YG’s hook of “Type of money you gon’ need a safe/ Type of money you gon’ need a bank.” In his …

Two years after Dwight Yoakam revisited – and revised – songs from his back catalog for the bluegrass album Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…, he’s getting back to the Bakersfield-influenced basics with two new songs. “Then Here Came Monday” and “Pretty Horses” double down on Yoakam’s longtime strengths, with both songs …

A recent FacebookvideoshowsR. Kellytelling a laudatory, packed room that “it’s too late” for his musical influence to be curtailed. The clip was initially uploaded May 17th beforeSpinreposted iton May 22nd. “I’ma tell you something,” Kelly said in the brief clip. “I’ma take this musical shit, and I’ma inject these motherfuckers …

Eight months after Bob Seger postponed his Runaway Train Tour due to a vertebrae issue, the rocker rescheduled 10 dates from the trek. Seger and the Silver Bullet Band will resume the tour on November 24th in Kansas City. The 13-date tour is currently scheduled to conclude February 23rd, 2019, …

The Urban Cowboy period of country music doesn’t always get enough credit for its influence on the present, but in the new music video for “Burn Out” Midland play up their appreciation for the classic John Travolta film and the sounds it inspired. Directed by TK McKamy and Midland bassist …

The list of nominees for the 2018 Americana Music Association’s Honors & Awards has been revealed and genre favorites Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, and Margo Price feature prominently among the candidates. All three have had a blockbuster run over the past 12 months, starting with the release of Isbell and …

Metallica‘s 2000 lawsuit against Napster, the pioneering and controversial file-sharing service, epitomized a disoriented music industry in the new millennium. And while some fans criticized the metal band for their legal action, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett maintains that they made the right choice. “The whole Napster thing – it didn’t …

Lamb of God add some chunky metal heft to Bad Brains‘ 1986 hardcore classic “I Against I.” The track will appear on the band’s upcoming covers album, Legion XX, which they’re putting out under their original name, Burn the Priest. The record, due out next Friday, also contains caffeinated interpretations …

Singer-songwriter Lori McKenna, who earned back-to-back Grammy awards for Best Country Song with “Girl Crush” in 2016 followed by “Humble and Kind” in 2017, has not only scored hits for Little Big Town, Tim McGraw and dozens of others (including Carrie Underwood’s current single, “Cry Pretty”), she has also released …

It’s a frosty mid-February night in New York, and a group of Latin titans is holding a summit inside a sold-out Radio City Music Hall. Luis Fonsi, Zion and Lennox, and others maintain a consistent, romantic groove throughout the show, which is part of a concert series co-produced by Univision, …