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In 2019, a curious thing happened to music streaming: The two biggest players in the industry, Spotify and Apple, both quietly stopped referring to themselves as music services. Though the two tech g…

Our new feature on the birth of Weezer and the making of the Blue Album is just the beginning of our celebration of that albums 25th anniversary there will be much more to come from the interviews.…

In a year full of bizarro hits, nothing tops Jesus Is the One (I Got Depression) by comedian Zack Fox and producer Kenny Beats. The song starts with a threat If you aint a Christian, Im gonna stab y…

Neal Casal performed a blistering guitar solo with his band Circles Around the Sun at Virginias Lockn Festival last weekend. It was one of the roots guitarists final performances before his untimely …

This stage is so small, I have to leave to change my mind, Kiss frontman Paul Stanley quipped onstage at the 500-capacity Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles Monday night. Less than two weeks into their En…

Kathy Mattea could hardly contain her amusement. The West Virginia-born country singer hasnt had a song on the country charts in nearly 30 years, but after the airing of Ken Burns eight-part Country …

Everybody kept saying it was gonna be huge, but I dont think anybody really believed that. To the Grateful Dead, it sounded a bit like pressure. You know, You gotta play well cause your career is gon…

Christina Aguilera has announced a Las Vegas residency, which will take place at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casinos Zappos Theater. Dubbed Christina Aguilera: The Xperience, it kicks off in May an…

Khalid laments a love interest that continues to haunt him in his new song, Dont Pretend, which features Torontos Safe. The song appears on the R&B singers forthcoming Free Spirit LP, which will…

BJ The Chicago Kid has dropped the first single from his upcoming sophomore album 1123 . The track, produced by Dre Harris and J MO, is a groove-driven song with a retro R&B vibe. He told Billboa…

Theres an aspirational thread throughout all of Katy Perrys best songs: the candy-coated nostalgia of Teenage Dream, the fizzy, life-affirming Firework, the empowering Roar. During the 2017 Witness …

Quirky, catchy melodies have always been Pixies calling card and on Beneath the Eyrie, their third post-reunion album, the alt-rock icons indulge everything from jaunty, old-timey Kurt Weill oom-pah…

When Green River hit their groove, they played a vicious mix of snarling punk and gigantic hard-rock riffs. It was a heavy, menacing sound, and in the mid-Eighties, nobody really knew what to call it…