Music

The Smiths unearthed a previously unreleased demo for “I Know It’s Over” on Thursday. The track will appear on a deluxe reissue of The Queen Is Dead on October 20th. The demo of “I Know It’s Over” adheres closely to the final recorded version: Rumbly lines from Andy Rourke on …

Sean Penn honors the “music, words and way” of Tom Petty in a touching remembrance shared with Rolling Stone. Petty died Monday at the age of 66 after going into cardiac arrest. Penn collaborated with Petty and his band Mudcrutch in 2016, co-directing a music video with Samuel Bayer for …

In a poignant Charles Bradley tribute video from the late singer’s label, Daptone Records, the soul giant belts an a cappella version of his 2013 ballad “Victim of Love” outside the ornate St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. Jeff Broadway and Cory Bailey, co-directors of 2016 documentary Living on Soul: …

Shania Twain, NOWThe first album in 15 years from the Canadian country-pop superstar is “taking inspiration from the expansively chaotic sound of contemporary country pop – a sound she helped to shape in the first place,” writes Rob Sheffield.Read Our Review: Miley Cyrus, Shania Twain Reinvent Themselves Via Country Roots …

Niall Horan surprised longtime fans of his boy band One Direction when he became the first still-active member of the group to go solo following the release of the group’s 2015 LP Made in the A.M. In September of last year, he dropped the folky, tender single “This Town,” a …

In the Communist Seventies and Eighties, popular music was repressed in the Soviet Union, and the hunger for it – particularly Western rock & roll – led Russian fans to extreme measures. Black-market records, bootlegs etched into X-rays and even the opportunity to dub cassettes could easily cost fans a …

The past three years have tested U2 in different ways, from the fierce backlash they received for gifting 2014’s Songs of Innocence to every iTunes user to Bono’s devastating bicycle accident, which left him with several fractured bones and a shattered left arm. But those setbacks didn’t compare to another …

With its funding backed in part by Detroit taxpayers’ money, and in a city where more than 80 percent of the people are black, hosting Kid Rock as the inaugural act at the new Little Caesars Arena—which opened Tuesday with the first show of Rock’s six-night stand—fueled controversy in the …

Lordetapped SZA, Khalid and Post Malone for a crackling remix of her Melodrama track, “Homemade Dynamite.” The three artists contribute fresh verses to the song and lay down vocals alongside Lorde‘s during the punchy chorus. Over the airy synths of “Homemade Dynamite,” Khalid and Post Malone unravel poignant verses while …

Veteran art-metal crew Living Colour stretch across time and genre for another serving of righteous rage. But for sixth albumShade, they fold blues music into their singular crunch: Tracks like “Freedom of Expression (F.O.X.)” and “Who’s That” (with trombone by ex-Dirty Dozen Brass Bander Big Sam Williams) sound like an …