As the music industry continues to transform, a new wave of artists is redefining genres, pushing creative boundaries, and captivating audiences around the world. From trailblazing veterans launching bold new projects to rising stars forging their own paths, these ten musicians are poised to shape the sound of 2025. Their styles span rock, pop, blues, […]
Bright Eyes crystallize going to the prom, experimenting with new SSRI medications and navigating the barriers to adulthood on Kids Table, a new eight-song EP arriving Sept. 26 from Dead Oceans. The first single, “Dyslexic Palindrome,” features Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra, whose group has toured with Bright Eyes of late. “Alynda Segarra […]
In the middle of a rainstorm in Miami, Mau y Ricky are finding shelter in the place where they feel most at home—the recording studio. After nearly a decade of penning multi-platinum hits for themselves and other artists, the Latin superstars are opening a new door to more creative control with their EP La Llave, […]
Bon Jovi have rounded up a deep roster of special guests for an updated version of their 2024 album Forever, which will reappear Oct. 24 via Island in a new Legendary Edition. A new single, “Red, White and Jersey” is out on Friday (Aug. 29), along with a fresh take on original album closer “Hollow […]
Just in time for more fall-like temperatures, Texas-reared Midlake are back with another dose of refined folk rock on A Bridge to Far, due Nov. 7 from their own Midlake Records. The follow-up to 2022’s For the Sake of Bethel Woods is led by first single “The Ghouls,” an in-studio video for which can be […]
There’s a distinct lack of synchronicity in the Police camp. Per U.K. reports, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland are suing vocalist/bassist Sting in London’s High Court under the “general commercial contracts and arrangements” category, claiming they are owed millions in royalties. The specific details of the filing have not been made public, but […]
Tom Hanks made his directing debut in 1996 with That Thing You Do!, a fictional saga of a one-hit-wonder 1960s band punningly called the Wonders. The title song, written by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, captures the ’60s zeitgeist in a tidy two minutes and 43 seconds. But Hanks chose it after a wide audition. […]
86-year-old legend Mavis Staples has rounded up a star-studded cast of collaborators for her new album, Sad and Beautiful World, arriving Nov. 7 from Anti-. The Brad Cook-produced project is led by Staples’ covers of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” and Kevin Morby’s “Beautiful Strangers,” the latter of which was written in tribute to victims of the […]
Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, forum-shaped headquarters of Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh is digging up the distant past. The building houses his music production company on the Sunset Strip, but also the entire recorded history of Devo, the groundbreaking art-punk new wave band he co-founded with Jerry Casale back in the 1970s. […]
Frederick Mark Linkous was born into a family of coal miners in Virginia in 1962, and in the ’80s he moved to New York City and then to Los Angeles in search of success in the music industry. Linkous’s gift for riffs and hooks is readily apparent in the two albums he recorded as the […]