Music

Morrissey played his first concert of 2020 on March 6th at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England, where he treated fans to a reworked setlist. It featured not only the first performance of the Smiths classic “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side” since 2013 but also the …

Taylor Swift has already shared her process for becoming “The Man” for her latest music video (in short: five hours of makeup and lots of eyebrow prosthetics), but on Tuesday the pop star released a new clip showing how her directorial debut came together. “The video concept for ‘The Man’ …

The Weeknd continues to blur reality and fiction with his new short film After Hours, a promo for his upcoming album that builds on the singer’s increasingly meta visuals. After Hours picks up in the immediate moments after the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in January, with …

BTS easily won the race for Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Map of the Soul: 7, which includes some tracks from last year’s Map of the Soul: Persona along with plenty of new material, earned 218,000 units in its first week. (Direct-to-consumer sales were …

During the last two years, Bad Bunny has left no box unchecked en route to attaining global superstardom. His 2018 debut X 100pre (which featured assists from a small handful of co-stars including Diplo, El Alfa and Drake) was a crossover experiment that saw El Conejo level up from newcomer …

Bob Marley‘s family and friends discuss the late reggae legend in Bob Marley: Legacy. The clip is the first episode of a 12-part documentary series that will premiere on YouTube in the months to come. Nearly 20 minutes long, the episode shows Marley’s home of Jamaica and the influence he …

Grammy-winning rapper and activist Residente revisits his roots in his confessional new song “René.” It’s the latest single off his upcoming untitled album, which will feature collaborations with Bad Bunny and Jessie Reyez. The rapper was born René Pérez Joglar in San Juan, and, for the video, Residente and his …

Ashley McBryde sings about bad habits and those vices that refuse to go away in “First Thing I Reach For,” the latest release from the singer-songwriter’s upcoming second album, Never Will. Anyone hoping to continue the thrilling revenge-redemption narrative in McBryde’s recent video trilogy will have to remain in suspense, …

Less than a year after Mark Lanegan released his 2019 LP, Something’s Knocking, the singer-songwriter returns with a new album he was inspired to record while writing his upcoming memoir. Straight Songs of Sorrow arrives May 8th, just over a week after Lanegan’s memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, hits shelves …

Update, August 2021: Primus‘ rescheduled A Tribute to Kings tour kicks off in Boise, Idaho, on August 10th. On November 16th, 1978, Rush came through the Bay Area on their Hemispheres tour. In the audience at the band’s Cow Palace show that night was a young Les Claypool, and 40-some …