Music

Yep, Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back with another quarantine video — this time a cover of Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine.” The husband-and-wife duo is supported by their usual mysterious guitarist Sidney Jake, who hovers behind them in a gold mask. Willcox tears through the 1972 space rock track covered …

Action Bronson makes sure to let me know that he does not want to promote his new book, F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow: A True Story. Over Zoom, he’s animated and seems relieved that the process of putting it together is finally over. It’s not that Bronson, born Ariyan Arslani, …

Ezra Furman came out on Wednesday as a transgender woman and has been a mother for over two years. “About being a trans woman: For my own reasons I have been hesitant to use these words, especially the ‘woman’ word,” she wrote on Instagram. “I have often described myself as …

Jim Steinman is best known, with good reason, for the songs he wrote for Meat Loaf’s epicBat Out of Hell. But his aural footprint on pop wasn’t limited to that singer and that 1977 album. As it turned out, Steinman’s songs were equally at home in the two decades that …

The Black Keys returned to the stage for the first time in over a year to play a four-song set during the Triller Fight Club boxing event at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium Saturday. Although Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney announced a new album earlier in the week, the duo’s mini-set focused …

Last month, Danny Kiranos had enough of being stuck at home. The lack of movement during the pandemic over the last year was weighing on the singer-songwriter, who performs under the moniker Amigo the Devil. “I got cabin fever so I packed a bag, put some stuff in the car …

Rina Sawayama has released a new version of her song “Chosen Family,” performed as a duet with Elton John. Sawayama unveiled the ballad and tribute to the LGBTQ community on Wednesday, accompanied by a video of her and John singing “Chosen Family” as John plays the piano. “It was such …

Rico Nasty, Seu Jorge, and more have been tapped for the 2021 Afropunk festival, held on April 23rd. Similar to last year, the event will take place virtually at 4 p.m. ET. This year the festival will celebrate “Black Spring,” which focuses on Afro-Latine and Afro-Caribbean artists. Seafoam Walls, Black …

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson will publish his memoir, The Lives of Brian, on October 26th via Dey Street Books, an imprint of the William Morrow Group at HarperCollins. The Lives of Brian will find Johnson covering his early life and career: chronicling his childhood growing up in a small town …

Rising country-pop singer Morgan Wade performed three tracks from her debut album Reckless as part of CBS This Morning’s latest “Saturday Sessions.” The Virginia native played her standout “Wilder Days,” “Last Cigarette,” and “Don’t Cry” for the performance, with Wade joined by a backing band that included Sadler Vaden, the …