Music

The Wu-Tang Clan stormed the stage for the closing night of Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s Brooklyn residency, where the hip-hop collective delivered a pair of tracks from their classic 1993 LP Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Despite some recent bickering among Clan members, the Kimmel performance marked a near-complete reunion for …

Paul McCartneyannounced the latest installments of his ongoing Archive Collection, a pair of deluxe reissues dedicated to the Wings-era LPs 1971’s Wild Life and 1973’s Red Rose Speedway. Both reissues arrive December 7th. For the 3CD/1DVD limited deluxe edition of Wild Life, the newly remastered original album will be paired …

The songwriter-producer Warren “Oak” Felder has an intriguing theory about the rise and fall of musical genres. “Any form of music starts at its simplest, gets steadily more complex, and gets to its peak of complexity, where people are doing music not for the audience but for other musicians,” he …

Garage punks Le Butcherettes get confrontational on their cheeky new video for “strong/ENOUGH,” the latest single off their upcoming fourth album. Due February 2019 via Rise Records, the untitled new album follows their psych-laden 2018 EP, struggle/STRUGGLE, and isproduced by Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison. Filmed in the beautiful, architecturalBox …

Kurt Vile performed a stripped-down cover of Tom Petty‘s “Learning to Fly” during a recent live session for Sirius channel XMU. Vile flipped the jangly rocker into a subtle, country-tinged tune, using just an acoustic guitar and a simple percussion backing track. In between nimble runs up and down his …

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan relive the Nineties in their reference-packed video for collaboration “1999.” XCX recently joined Sivan at his sold out Radio City Music Hall show in NYC to perform the song together for the first time. The video opens with XCX in 2018, getting into a Lyft …

You might have thought you were entering a Troye Sivan costume contest when you entered Radio City Music Hall on the evening of October 9th. Young, lanky, male-presenting fans with hair bleached to match the South African singer were peppered into each row at the storied New York venue, breathing …

Southern-rock revivalists in Bishop Gunn are proud of their roots. They even named their newest album, Natchez, after the band’s Mississippi hometown, filling its songs with a mix of stomping Bible Belt blues and vintage, electrified soul. Their newest release, “Alabama,” is something of an outlier, downplaying the group’s amplified …

“I smell barbecue!” shouted James Hetfield, which was met with the hoots and cheers of thousands of Texans during the first weekend of Austin City Limits festival. Metallica hit the ground running on Saturday night — just a few minutes’ shy of their 8 p.m. start time. Opening with the …

Taylor Swift used to be an inescapable presence at award shows, but ever since she wrapped up her 1989 tour three years ago she’s kept an extremely low public profile by skipping out on the Grammys, the MTV Video Music Awards and all the other award shows in addition to …