Tool’s first album in 13 years opens like a grievous European symphony drawn in electronic tones; what sounds like the chiming of a hammered dulcimer enters alongside Danny Carey’s tablas, which tag-team with kit drums, heavy electric guitar and bass. Maynard James Keenan, his voice still striking youthful — he …

When Rob Sheffield is on deadline, he follows a strict routine: He wakes up at 5 a.m., hits “play” on a cassette mixtape he’s loaded the night before into his 1989 boombox (Rob has hundreds of cassette mixtapes stacked on shelves in his Brooklyn apartment), and makes a grilled-cheese sandwich …

Marvin Gaye‘s legendary May 1972 concert in Washington D.C., featuring the singer’s only full album performance of his classic What’s Going On, will be reissued as a standalone live album for the first time this October. What’s Going On Live, due out October 18th via Motown/UMe, highlights Gaye’s May 1st, …

Charli XCX has released her latest collaborative track from her upcoming third studio album, Charli, out on September 13th. The song, “Warm,” features vocals from the band Haim, which describe a relationship on the rocks over a subdued electronic beat. “You’ve gotta tell me the reason/Why we can’t fall in …

Bernie Sanders turned heads during his 2016 presidential campaign when he drew an unlikely endorsement from Atlanta rapper Killer Mike. The two met over soul food in the fall of 2015, and Killer Mike, real name Michael Render, went on to campaign for the progressive senator. “I am here because …

Trisha Yearwood is enjoying her biggest hit in years with the lead single and title track from her new album, Every Girl, recently debuting at Number 21 on the country airplay chart. But there’s another song on the album, out Friday, that proves Yearwood’s creative instincts are still just as …

President Trump is, once again, optimistic that he will be able to strike a trade deal with China — and soon. Speaking from the G7 summit of world leaders in Biarritz, France, on Monday, the president said that he had “very good calls” with China over the weekend, and that …

What do you call a heel turn for a villain? Succession has always been driven forward by the cruelty and vindictiveness of Brian Cox’s Logan Roy, but on Sunday’s episode, “Hunting,” he took it to heights that surprised even the other characters. It was a descent into madness for the …

Rodney Crowell could have spent a lifetime writing an album about Texas. In a way, he has. Though the Grammy-winning Americana storyteller left the Lone Star State for Music City in 1972, he’s returned to it time and again for inspiration in the decades since, from his 2001 LP The …

To promote their joint headlining tour, Blink-182 and Lil Wayne have released a mash-up of their hits “What’s My Age Again?” and “A Milli.” The track, which was previously unveiled in a live version when the tour was announced in May, somehow brings the two very different songs together fairly …