Music

Jay-Z continues to expand his business portfolio as the rapper, Roc Nation founder and Tidal owner has aligned with Puma to become the apparel brand’s President of Basketball Operations. In his new role, the rapper is expected to assist with the brand’s creative direction and product as well as recruit …

Nick Knox, longtime drummer for the influential psychobilly band the Cramps, died Friday at the age of 60. Fellow former members of the Cramps, including the band’s second drummer Miriam Linna and guitarist Kid Congo Powers confirmed Knox’s death on social media. No cause of death was provided. Born Nicholas …

On July 13th, nearly 40 years after his debut LP was released, Rodney Crowell will issue his 19th album. Acoustic Classics vividly re-imagines some of Crowell’s best-known songs and personal favorites with stripped-down – and in a few cases, markedly different – arrangements. One such tune is “Leaving Louisiana in …

The Grateful Dead have announced their latest deep-dive box set release, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings, which will feature six complete shows recorded during those years. Today the band is previewing the set by unveiling a 26-minute medley including the American Beauty closer “Truckin’” and Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade …

Drama students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School performed the Rent standout “Seasons of Love” at the 2018 Tony Awards to honor their theatre teacher Melody Herzfeld, who helped saved dozens of lives during the shooting at the Parkland, Florida school. Herzfeld barricaded 65 students inside a closet within her …

Jay Rock looks back at his “battle scars and tribulations” on his new single “The Bloodiest,” the opening song off the rapper’s upcoming album Redemption. Over a sonorous beat produced by Jake One, Allen Ritter and Boi-1da, Rock reflects on his youth in Watts, California and his rise from slinging …

When the final notes of Luke Bryan’s set close out the 2018 CMA Music Festival on Sunday night at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, the annual country blowout is only half over. In August, the massive concert will be whittled down to a three-hour highlights special – CMA Fest – to …

“We didn’t have a goal of what we wanted to sound like when we started out,” says Keith Strickland, the multi-instrumentalist behind some of theB-52’s‘ biggest hits. “We just knew we wanted it to be fun.” Since springing out of Athens, Georgia, in the mid-Seventies, the group has always been …

The entire Buffalo Springfield saga lasted just a little over 24 months. It began with a chance encounter in early 1966 when Stephen Stills and Richie Furay were driving down the Sunset Strip and happened to see Neil Young and Bruce Palmer driving a hearse headed down the street in …

Since forming in 2011, the Scottish trio Chvrches have refined synth-pop for the festival age, taking the chilly atmospherics of early electro and piling on flourishes designed to divert distracted attendees’ attentions away from art installations and friends’ conversations, with vocalist Lauren Mayberry’s airy soprano contorting into stretched-out pleas and …