Music

Pantera bassist Rex Brown remembered his longtime friend and bandmate, Vinnie Paul Abbott, as a game-changing drummerin a heartfelt tribute toRolling Stone. “He changed the game,” said Brown. “He was the original for his generation, a generation that’s still going. Everybody wanted to play like him. People always thought those …

Shania Twain is already eight weeks into her Now Tour, but while her name may be on the marquee, she’s not going it alone: the country superstar is accompanied by an entourage of musicians, dancers and crew who help produce the elaborate stage show that took months to coordinate and …

A female rapper in Saudi Arabia made a huge splash in her native country after dropping a music video that celebrated the lifting on a ban that prohibited women from driving. Following the end of the decades-old ban on June 24th, rapper Leesa A hopped behind the wheel of a …

Earlier this year, sibling pop trio AJR released “Burn the House Down,” their first single since their hit 2017 album The Click.Little did members Adam, Jack and Ryan Met know that the song would end up becoming part of a greater cause. The energetic track, meant to reflect the current …

Lady Antebellum isn’t quite through their first song (“We Owned the Night”) at Colorado’s famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre, but singer Hillary Scott can’t pull the smile off her face – the Monday night gig marks not only the band’s first show of 2018, but its first ever gig at Red …

Singer-songwriter Radney Foster has shared a new Spanish-language version of his song “Godspeed (Sweet Dreams),” recasting the tune as “Godpeed (Dulces Sueños).” The song is his response to immigrant children being separated from their families along the U.S.-Mexico border by the Department of Justice’s policy under President Trump. Foster, a …

03 Greedo, the critically acclaimed Watts rapper, just got a big boost in the form of an unexpected guest feature from genre-bending upstart star Lil Uzi Vert. “Never Bend” has been out since last year – it’s perhaps the best starting point if you’ve never listened to the perennially shapeshifting …

Roger Miller was part Hank Williams, part Will Rogers, yet a wholly original talent with a densely populated mind from which sprang some of the most noteworthy and enduring songs of the 1960s. Amid the yeah-yeah-yeahs of the British Invasion and the protests that “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” Miller …

Mike Shinoda is painting differently these days. In the months since the death of his foil in Linkin Park, singer Chester Bennington, the rapper, producer and visual artist has found himself approaching all of his creative pursuits differently. But it’s most evident when he puts a brush to a canvas. …

The post-metal group Isis, which disbanded in 2010, will reunite under the name Celestial this fall to pay tribute to Caleb Scofield, the bassist for the band Cave In who died this past March. The benefit concert will also feature performances by Cave In, Pelican, Old Man Gloom (a group …