Music

Like a church choir staring down the apocalypse, Darlingside sing about the modern world’s iffy future – including political unrest and nuclear fallout — on the Massachusetts band’s anxious, harmony-heavy Extralife. The new album arrives February 23rd, with the lead single “Futures” kicking things off on a cautiously optimistic note. …

Following his big night at the 60th Grammy Awards, Chris Stapleton turned The Late Show With Stephen Colbert into a church of righteous reflection on Tuesday night (January 30) with an anguished rendition of the his ballad “Drunkard’s Prayer.” Part of his outstanding From A Room: Volume 2 LP, the …

Franz Ferdinand made one of the greatest debuts of all time back in 2004 with their self-titled LP – 11 tracks of flawless disco-punk that could’ve been a lesser band’s greatest-hits package. They’ve never been daunted by the mixed blessing of having started so strong – not even now, as …

Jennifer Hudson will portray Aretha Franklin in an upcoming biopic about the Queen of Soul, Clive Davis revealed Saturday night at his annual pre-Grammys party. Davis made the announcement while introducing Hudson at the Jay-Z-honoring gala, where the singer performed a medley of Franklin’s hits including “Think,” “Rock Steady” and …

A new study by theUSC Annenberg Inclusion Initiativefinds that over the last six years, women have been vastly underrepresented in popular music. The study analyzed 600 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 released between 2012 and 2017 and found only 22 percent of those songs were by female artists. Even …

The Avett Brothers are among the most adept artists at delivering fresh takes on classic songs. At a recent show in Louisville, Kentucky, they paid tribute to late Cranberries vocalist Dolores O’Riordan with a cover of one of her band’s best-known songs, “Linger.” Led by Scott Avett’s singing and his …

Britney Spears will take her hit Las Vegas show,Britney: Piece of Me, on the road for a short North American tour this summer. The trek kicks off with a two-night stand at MGM National Harbor in Washington D.C., January 12th and 13th. The tour includes stops in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Atlantic …

Keith Urban has unveiled what will likely be the first new track off his upcoming LPGraffiti Uwith the track “Parallel Line.” Reminiscent of a Nineties slow jam, yet couched in contemporary Ed Sheeran-style intimacy, the tune spotlights Urban singing the verses in a higher register and giving the pleading lyrics …

Jimmy Fallon and the Roots picked up their classroom instruments and Ray-Bans on Wednesday to record a breezy version of “Havana” with Camila Cabello. Two members of the Roots replicated the piano-heavy groove of “Havana” with a cheerful melodica and a tinny xylophone. The rapper Black Thought chipped in by …

Halsey fulfilled “the biggest of all dreams” when the singer served as musical guest on the Sam Rockwell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. The singer performed to cuts off her latest LP Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, first delivering the single “Bad at Love” before bringing out rapper (and Halsey’s boyfriend) G-Eazy …