Music

Guns N’ Roses rolled out yet another leg of their reunion tour earlier this week that will bring them to stadiums across North America throughout the summer. They downgraded to arenas in America after the first leg of the tour in 2016, and filling 60,000 seat venues might seem like …

For anyone who thought 2016’s American Band would be the most explicitly political record of the Drive-By Truckers career, the quintet has nine new songs that’ll likely convince you otherwise. In 2016, the longtime road warriors found new life with its election year treatise, which saw the band more revved …

Alicia Keys appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to perform her new single “Underdog” — and also took the opportunity to talk about her reaction to Kobe Bryant’s death. “Underdog” comes off Keys’ upcoming eighth album Alicia, which will be released March 20th; the singer told Ellen DeGeneres why she …

While hosting the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Alicia Keys brought out Boyz II Men for a moving tribute to Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash. “[It’s] music’s biggest night celebrating the artists that do it best, but to be honest with you, we’re all feeling …

James Taylor will take on the Great American Songbook on the singer’s upcoming album American Standard, due out February 28th. The LP is Taylor’s first since 2015’s Before This World and 19th overall. “I’ve always had songs I grew up with that I remember really well, that were part of …

Katie Crutchfield recently read a diary entry from when she was 17 years old. “It was actually really sad,” she says. “I talked about how I wanted to quit drinking, and that was so long ago.” It’s 11 a.m., but Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, is still in …

John Legend, Meek Mill, and DJ Khaled will lead a tribute to the late rapper Nipsey Hussle at the 62nd Grammy Awards. The performance will also feature gospel star Kirk Franklin and two of Nipsey’s Southern California hip-hop successors: Roddy Ricch and YG. Along with the tribute, Nipsey Hussle is …

David Olney, the Americana singer and songwriter whose poetic often intricate writing style made an impact on Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, and Emmylou Harris, died Saturday from an apparent heart attack following a performance at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. He was 71. Olney’s publicist …

Matt Healy of the 1975 appeared on Matt Wilkinson’s Beats 1 radio show on Friday, and while the full interview won’t air until next week (January 24th), Apple has shared snippets from their chat, where Healy confirmed that the band won’t be playing Glastonbury this year. “No, we’re not going …

Black Pumas were thrown into a whirlwind a few months ago when their debut album, Black Pumas, was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy. But it’s not the first time the Austin psych-soul duo’s guitarist, producer, and co-songwriter Adrian Quesada has had to cope with show-biz craziness: There was …