Music

“OK, family,” Kimberly Perry says to her brothers with a winking smile. “Let’s have some sake and talk about how pissed we are.” It’s been a long time since the Band Perry have been able to joke about their career, but sitting in a dark booth in an underground Manhattan …

Graham Nash‘s new career-spanning compilation album Over the Years …traces his long career as a songwriter, stretching all the way back to his days in the Hollies when he sketching out tunes like “Marrakesh Express” and “Teach Your Children” that would later be recorded by CSN and CSNY. Earlier this …

Latin trap phenom Bad Bunnyadded distorted rock guitars to several of his songs during his performance at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas. He began with “Sensualidad,” which was originally recorded as a collaboration with J Balvin and Prince Royce. The single adheres closely to the formula of a previous …

Maggie Rose and her band get cooking in a new studio performance of “I’m Yours,” a song from her 2018 album Change the Whole Thing. Wanting to capture the energy of her full-throttle live shows, Rose went into the studio with her “family band” —featuring players from her touring band …

Yet another lean and excellent project – her sixth in three years – from still-unsigned, still under-the-radar, still not-on-Rap-Caviar Chicago pottymouth Cupcakke. Her style should be irresistible for anyone who’s a fan of vintage cassettes with Parental Advisory stickers or modern bloody-shoe boast badasses, a mix of 2 Live Crew’s over-the-top raunch …

Part of the beauty of Robert Ellis has always been his ability to match his uncanny talent and masterful musicianship with a sense of humor — while his last self-titled LP was a reflection on heartbreak and restlessness built with as much modern jazz as it was country, he took …

With a name like Real Country, USA Network’s new reality singing competition seems is wading into some contentious territory as it seeks to differentiate between “real country” and, well, whatever the opposite of that is. Premiering Tuesday, November 13th, at 10:00 p.m. ET, Real Country casts Shania Twain, Jake Owen …

Elvis Presley is among the seven “distinguished individuals” that will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump at a November 16th ceremony. Yankees great Babe Ruth and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will also posthumously receive the prestigious award, “the Nation’s highest civilian honor, which may be awarded …

Regina Spektor sings about quietude on new song “Birdsong,” which appears in the latest episode of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s new Amazon series, The Romanoffs. “Out of the quiet, out of the sunrise, I hear the birdsong give way to sirens,” the singer-songwriter coos over a sparse acoustic guitar …

Six years after their brilliant reunion album, Anastasis, Dead Can Dance return with their headiest work to date: a two-act, LP-length meditation on the Greek god of pleasure. This record skews more toward Brendan Perry’s side of the duo, with Lisa Gerrard contributing only the female responses to his music, but …