Music

Ariana Grande navigates an undefined relationship and things get confusing as they do in that situation in her new video for “Boyfriend,” which features her tour mates, the duo Social House. In the new clip, Grande and Social House are hanging at a stylish party in a fancy mansion, pretending …

Kesha has announced she will be hosting a second Weird & Wonderful Rainbow Ride cruise. The four-night jaunt will depart from Miami, Florida on the Norwegian Pearl. It runs from October 16-20, 2020 and registration for pre-sale booking information is available. Guests who attended the inaugural cruise are already included …

Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme made a surprise appearance at the Raconteurs‘ Los Angeles performance Friday night, joining the band for an extended version of “Blue Veins.” Where the original track was only about four minutes on the Raconteurs’ debut, Broken Boy Soldiers, Homme and Jack White …

Chance the Rapper has released his long-awaited debut album, The Big Day. The 22-track record boasts an eclectic list of special guests from across musical genres, including Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Francis and the Lights (“The Big Day”), Ben Gibbard (“Do You Remember”), Timbaland (“Big Fish”), Randy Newman (“5 …

Big Sean has dropped his first solo single since 2017, taking the opportunity to address his career moves and flex on his influence. The track, “Overtime,” was produced by Hit-Boy, Key Wane and The Tucker Brothers, and follows his 2017 albums I Decided and Double or Nothing, which he created …

DJ Shadow has tapped De La Soul for a boisterous new track, “Rocket Fuel,” which marks the DJ/producer’s first new music since 2017. “Rocket Fuel” boasts a quintessential DJ Shadow beat, with a surge of hard-hitting drums anchoring layers of vocal loops, horn samples and Shadow’s dizzying scratching. De La …

In 1969, Tony Joe White released what would become his signature song, the grooving, growling “Polk Salad Annie.” A cautionary tale about a Southern girl from a family of miscreants, it’d be covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to the Foo Fighters, who re-created “Polk Salad Annie” with White himself …

On May 16th, 1974, Ry Cooder and Leon Redbone wrapped up a gig at New York City’s Bottom Line, but the crowd was told to stick around for a surprise. It was 2:15 a.m., and a man with a guitar appeared onstage. “This one is called, um … this one’s …

Johnny Clegg — the British-born, South African musician who stood against apartheid in his adopted home and whose work crossed racial divides — died on Tuesday at his home in Johannesburg, Associated Press reports. He was 66. The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, was born in …

Black Sabbath wrote the book on heavy, and their first decade’s worth of albums represent the Old Testament in the book of metal. From the clanging opening chords of “Black Sabbath” and lumbering siren’s call of “War Pigs” to the demon’s cry of “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” and proto-thrash riffs of …