Music

Ellie Goulding reimagined her Diplo-produced single “Close to Me” as a spirited folk sing-along on The Late Show Monday. Goulding teamed with house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human, who crafted a delicate arrangement of intertwining acoustic guitars, tender piano and simple percussion. Throughout the performance, Goulding found new pockets …

Dylan LeBlanc, the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, singer-songwriter whose ethereal album Cautionary Tale was a must-hear of 2016, has announced his latest project. Renegade, released via ATO Records, will arrive June 7th The 29-year-old LeBlanc recorded the LP with Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell) at Nashville’s RCA Studio A, backed …

When Ben Dickey returned home to his farm in Louisiana after spending months working on Ethan Hawke’s film Blaze, he fell into a depression. “I was still in a Blaze way,” says Dickey, who, after playing the role of Seventies country outsider Blaze Foley in his acting debut, says he …

Gayle King’s extended interview with R. Kelly aired Friday as a primetime special that showed the tense moments immediately after the singer’s outburst. In a heated segment from the interview that went viral earlier in the week, an emotional Kelly stood up from his chair and started yelling at the …

CupcakKe has returned with her second new track: the hard-hitting, Netflix film-referencing “Bird Box.” The Chicago rapper’s previous release was “Squidward Nose.” On “Bird Box,” CupcakKe makes the obvious double-entendre with the title of Netflix’s hit film of the same name while going about a nimble take on her usual …

The Budos Band slither through another hypnotic instrumental, “Arcane Rambler,” set to appear on the group’s forthcoming album, V, out April 12th via Daptone Records. “Arcane Rambler” finds the Budos Band’s horn section crafting an arrangement that bristles with dark soul as it flies atop a sturdy backbeat of rumbling …