Music

Ricky Reed released “Real Magic,” a gliding, double-time collaboration with Terrace Martin and St. Panther, on Tuesday. Reed is best known as the songwriter-producer behind Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty,” Lizzo‘s “Good as Hell,” and Halsey‘s “Bad at Love,” among other hits; he will release his solo debut, The Room, in …

The Flaming Lips are getting as patriotic as the Flaming Lips can get on their upcoming 21st studio album, American Head. The record is currently set for release on September 11 — and, Friday, they’re out with “My Religion Is You.” “The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma. We never thought …

The Dirty Projectors released their new EP Flight Tower — the second of the band’s five planned EPs in 2020 — a day early Thursday, and with it a new video for the track “Self Design.” While the video was likely shot during quarantine, singer Felicia Douglass and the band …

Ricky Martin and Mexican singer Carla Morrison performed their new duet, “Recuerdo,” on The Ellen Degeneres Show on Tuesday. Produced by Alejandro Jimenez, the track comes from Pausa, Martin’s new quarantine-themed project. In a pretaped clip, Martin and Morrison separately perform their vocals for “Recuerdo” (English: “Memory”), singing of the aching longing …

Kid Rock‘s Big Ass Honky Tonk and Rock & Roll Steakhouse will have its permit to sell beer suspended for five days after the Nashville venue served patrons at its bar — a violation of the city’s active public-health emergency order in regards to Covid-19. Currently, watering holes in Tennessee’s …

School may be out, but music teachers are still bringing good cheer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben Millington, an instructor at England’s Telford Priory School, led his students in a lockdown cover of Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing,” which he edited together as a music video and uploaded to YouTube …

In between the propulsive house and electronica beats, Lady Gaga‘s Chromatica is strung together by three orchestral interludes, each feeding into the songs that follow them. The three are perfect palate cleansers, composed by Gaga and former M83 member Morgan Kibby, who connected through Chromatica executive producer BloodPop.   “I must …

Beyoncé has penned an open letter to the Attorney General of Kentucky to seek justice for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT in Louisville who was killed in an unannounced police raid on her boyfriend’s apartment. The police officers involved in the shooting have not been charged in Taylor’s death. “It …

Bob Dylan‘s Q&A with the New York Times on Friday marks his first major interview in three years, following a conversation with Bill Flanagan on his own website in 2017. In it, he tells historian Douglas Brinkley about his upcoming album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, including the sprawling, 17-minute closer …

Aluna has shared her “fearless” new song “Warrior,” the latest single from the AlunaGeorge singer’s upcoming debut solo album. “Warrior” was scheduled to arrive last week, but Aluna held the track due to the ongoing George Floyd protests; instead, the single is now a tribute to the black women marching …