Music

Eat your heart out, Sara Bareilles: Francisca Valenzuela has released a Spanish-language ballad fit for Broadway, titled “Flotando.” It is the latest single from her upcoming fourth LP, and her first in five years, La Fortaleza. In “Flotando,” which means “Floating,” Valenzuela sings ecstatically of finding, at long last, a …

Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two recent tracks, “Middle Child” and “I Really Blew It.” The band was joined by Dave Grohl on drums for “Middle Child” and got a vocal boost from Perry Farrell on “I Really Blew It,” both of …

Sharon Osbourne stated this week that her husband Ozzy Osbourne is working on a song with Elton John. On her show, The Talk, Sharon laid out Ozzy’s plans for the year: “A lot of good things. Wellness. And to get back with his band, to get doing what he loves, …

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group’s namesake, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the United States’ assassination of Iran’s top military commander, Qassim Suleimani. Suleimani was killed in a …

So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. A decade ago, indie singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus was a freshman in high school. …

So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. In 2014, a then-unsigned Margo Price headlined Rolling Stone Country’s new artist showcase at …

The National‘s Matt Berninger made a special appearance on Apple TV+ series Helpsters to rap about long words alongside a group of puppets. The track, titled “The Long Words Song,” is all about Berninger’s love for lengthy words. “I like long words and I like to recite ’em,” Berninger raps. …

In July, the folk-leaning sextet Delta Rae announced their departure from Big Machine Label Group, an event that happened to coincide with the label’s sale to Scooter Braun and Taylor Swift’s subsequent criticism of the deal. As a side effect, Delta Rae’s Kickstarter was quickly funded beyond their wildest dreams …

Post Malone has picked a very strange way to premiere his latest music video for “Circles.” (Yes, there’s already a “Circles” music video, but this is a new one.) As seen in the preview video above, the visual requires two phones and a Spotify subscription in order to play. Users …

Ja Rule has shared a new track titled “Fyre” that is inspired by the rapper’s role in the disastrous Fyre Festival. Released Friday to Ja Rule’s Instagram page, the song is an acronym for “For Your Real Entertainment.” Ja Rule details the disaster behind the now-infamous Bahamas festival on the …