Jennifer Lopez performed a medley of “This Land Is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful” during the inauguration ceremony for President Joe Biden. Following Lady Gaga’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the U.S. Capitol, Lopez delivered a rendition of the Woody Guthrie’s classic folk song that segued into an …

Country singer Eric Church and rising R&B star Jazmine Sullivan will team up for a collaborative performance of the National Anthem at this year’s Super Bowl. The National Football League also announced that H.E.R. will perform “America the Beautiful” at Super Bowl LV, which takes place February 7th in Tampa …

Phil Spector, the monumentally influential music producer whose “Wall of Sound” style revolutionized the way rock music was recorded in the early 1960s, died Saturday at the age of 81. Spector’s life was tumultuous and ultimately tragic; as groundbreaking as his studio accomplishments were, those achievements were all but overshadowed …

Katie Crutchfield made a major creative breakthrough last year with Saint Cloud, her fifth album as Waxahatchee. The Alabama-raised singer-songwriter was met with rave reviews across the board when the LP was released in March 2020, and enthusiasm for her clear-eyed country-rock songs about personal growth and domestic bliss held …

After a brief cosmic rupture in which the universe pondered a parallel reality ruled by Post Malone, things have returned to normal: Drake is Number One. After ceding the throne to Post Malone in 2019, Drake is once again the most-streamed artist of the year, topping Rolling Stone’s Year-End Artists …

Neil Young was not kidding when he said he was going to start releasing archival material at a much faster rate this year. Just weeks after the release of the 10-disc set Archives Volume II 1972-1976 and the live album/film Return to Greendale, he has announced that Way Down in …

Neil Young has responded to the violent assault on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., with an impassioned essay that blames President Trump, social media, and the partisan press for the tragedy. He also says the situation would have played out very differently had the rioters been black. “I was …

I have never read All Creatures Great and Small, nor any of the follow-up novels by Alf Smith, written under his pen name of James Herriot. Nor did I watch the beloved TV version that ran in the UK and on PBS for seven seasons across the late Seventies and …

Florida Georgia Line have released the song “New Truck” as the latest offering from their upcoming album Life Rolls On. Written with five additional co-writers including Priscilla Renea and Corey Crowder, the track finds the duo in familiar territory: singing about the deluxe features (“peanut butter leather kangaroo hide grip”) …

Kings of Leon have returned with two new singles, “The Bandit” and “100,000 People,” off their upcoming album When You See Yourself, out March 5th. “The Bandit” is accompanied by a video shot in black-and-white, showing the band tearing through the new track live. “And they’re walking around/With their heads …