Music

Katy Perry is back with her upbeat new song “Never Really Over,” produced by electronic pop artist Zedd. Since it’s the first bit of original music from Perry after a brief hiatus, the title feels apt. But the song and its colorful video, are actually about a pesky, second-guessing heart, …

Tanya Tucker, Jade Bird and Dylan LeBlanc are among the initial wave of artists confirmed to perform in Nashville during the 2019 AmericanaFest. The annual celebration of roots and roots-related music takes place September 10th to 15th and includes the Americana Honors and Awards on September 11th. In its 20th …

The Cure marked their 40th anniversary last year with a special concert in London, where they played a career-spanning selection of hits, deep cuts and rarities. The band filmed the show and is now releasing it to cinemas as Anniversary 1978 – 2018: Live in Hyde Park London for a …

The National pulled out all the stop during an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The band performed “Rylan,” a track off their recent album I Am Easy To Find, and brought in a slew of backing musicians, including two backup singers, to augment the song. In the …

Around 2013, University of Oslo professor Kyle Devine was reading a lot about junk. He’d grown fascinated with a subset of media studies that grappled with the growing problem of e-waste — old cellphones, computers, printers, etc. — and wondered if the problem was also plaguing ostensibly intangible things like …

Hope Tala’s “Lovestained” is a hybrid as intrepid as it is airy: The guitar suggests Brazil in 1965, the steel drums add a springy touch of the Caribbean, and the bass seems plucked from an irresistible hit on American rap radio in 1998. “That’s what the vision is: Bringing together …

Madonna has unveiled new song “Future,” which features Migos‘ Quavo. It’s the second collaboration the pair have released following “Champagne Rosé,” which appeared on the rapper’s solo debut, Quavo Huncho. On the reggae-tinged song, the pair look to what is ahead, celebrate the present and also contemplate the past. “Not …

Jhay Cortez becomes the latest recruit of the New Latino Gang with the remix of his 2019 single, “No Me Conoce,” starring J Balvin and Bad Bunny. The track is the latest single off the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter’s upcoming album, Famouz. As many urbano artists are wont to do these …

Aaron Watson gathers his band on the bus to give a breezy acoustic rendition of his current single “Kiss That Girl Goodbye,” which originally came out in February. Watson’s new album Red Bandana will be released June 21st. Accompanied by cell phone video that frequently rotates around the Texas native’s …

With her latest release, Tristen proves that a great song can come from any place — or any time. “Dream Within a Dream” finds the eclectic Nashville artist setting Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 poem of the same name to garage-rocking 12-bar blues. The results are both wildly inventive and irreverent, …