Music

One night before a gunman opened fire and killed 58 at the Route 91 Harvest festival on October 1st, Maren Morris played her own set, filling the Las Vegas Strip with the sounds of a country singer who’s never been afraid to challenge her genre’s boundaries. On Sunday, during a …

Kali Uchis unveiled a surreal new video for the song “After the Storm,” featuring Tyler, the Creator and Bootsy Collins. Director Nadia Lee Cohen builds a strange suburban world that pairs with the song’s woozy funk. The video opens with Uchis sitting at a kitchen table alone, listlesslyscribbling a grocery …

After a few days of teasing the track online, EDM artist Zedd has released his new collaboration with Maren Morris and electronic duo Grey, “The Middle.” The song is an infectious earworm that finds Morris straying from her country roots. A synth-heavy verse gives way to a Nineties R&B-indebted, vocoder-driven …

Belle and Sebastian extended their 2018 tour with a series of North American tour dates. The newly announced leg – which spans the U.S., Mexico and Canada – kicks off June 5th in Portland, Maine and concludes June 30th in Portland, Oregon. Openers for the North American dates include Snail …

Veteran indie outfitYo La Tengo unveiled four new songs from their upcoming album, There’s a Riot Going On, out March 16th via Matador. The album is available to pre-order,with new tracks “You Are Here,” “Shades of Blue,” “She May, She Might” and “Out of the Pool” available to hear now. …

Stephen Stills‘ autism awareness benefit concert Light Up The Blues is returning this year with a packed lineup of performers and a new, bigger venue.Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Burt Bacharch, Judy Collins, Chris Stills, Jack Black, Christina Applegate will join Stills. The event’s house band will feature guitarist Mike Campbell, …

Marshmello released a new single, “Spotlight,” featuring Lil Peep, a song the pair started working on but didn’t complete prior to the rapper’s death. “Peep brought an excitement to music that was unparalleled to anybody I’ve ever met,” Marshmello said in a statement. “We started an idea together, that unfortunately …

Critics aren’t the most obvious subjects for drama. But if anyone qualified for a theatrical presentation, it would be the late Lester Bangs, whose caffeinated, take-few-prisoners prose and rock & roll–animal image (accurate or not) made him nearly as iconic as the musicians he loved, dissected or trashed. Bangs, who …

Justin Timberlakeplays a Steve Jobs-styled robot inventor in his new video for “Filthy,” a song from his upcoming LP Man of the Woods. Timberlake co-wrote the song with Timbaland, Danja, James Fauntleroy and Lawrence Dopson; Timberlake, Timbaland and Danja co-produced the track, which the singer on Instagraminstructed to “[play] very …

Barack Obama continued his annual tradition of naming his favorite songs of 2017, with the former president listing tracks by Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, U2 and Bruce Springsteen among his picks. “During my presidency, I started a tradition of sharing my reading lists and playlists,” Obama wrote on his Facebook page …