Music

In the eight years since she released Idler Wheel, Fiona Apple has rehashed and distilled some of her earliest memories, all of which reckoned with her own identity as a woman and how she sees herself in relation to other women. The final product is the exquisitely noisy and brilliant …

Harold Reid, whose bass voice, songwriting, and gift for humor distinguished his long career as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame vocal group the Statler Brothers, died at his home in Staunton, Virginia, Friday evening after a lengthy battle with kidney failure, according to Reid’s bandmate Jimmy …

James Blake has dropped his dreamy new love song “You’re Too Precious,” the singer’s first new music since 2019’s Assume Form. “After a certain amount of time, somebody becomes too precious to lose,” Blake told Apple Music of the track, an ode of sorts to his girlfriend, The Good Place …

To mark the fourth anniversary of Prince‘s death this week, the producers of the Grammys put together an all-star tribute to the Purple One with performances of his songs by John Legend, the Foo Fighters, St. Vincent, Morris Day and the Time, and many others. Strangely absent from the festivities, …

On Saturday night, a multigenerational who’s who of hitmakers, including the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, and Taylor Swift, performed for an audience of more than 270 million across all platforms as part of Global Citizen‘s One World: Together at Home. The last two hours of the …

Lauren Jauregui has been living the socially distant life since long before quarantine, as detailed by new song “50ft.” On the smooth, bilingual song, Jauregui details how she sees through “the bullshit” and keeps an “exclusive” group of people who love and respect her. She keeps everyone else at a …

In the course of his 50-year career, John Prine influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to Bon Iver, Kacey Musgraves, Swamp Dogg, and others. The influence of Prine, who died last week from complications related to COVID-19, is clear in the latest installment of our In My Room series. We asked …

UPDATE 2/4/21: Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Thom Yorke has canceled the U.S. leg of his Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes tour: UPDATE:Thom Yorke is postponing his previously rescheduled U.S. fall tour, the artist announced via Twitter. While the new dates have not yet been released, the Washington, D.C., Chicago and …

Paul McCartney called on China to better regulate its so-called “wet markets” — one of which could have been the source of the COVID-19 outbreak — during an interview with Howard Stern Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. One of the earliest cases of the coronavirus was found in a …

Drake notched yet another Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, as “Toosie Slide” debuted at the top the chart for the week of April 3rd through April 9th. The song, which had a TikTok-ready dance even before it was officially released, pulled in 42.9 million song …