PnB Rock, the rapper best known for hit songs “Selfish” and “Fleek,” has died at the age of 30, law enforcement officials confirm. The rapper was gunned down at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles in a robbery attempt in Inglewood, Calif., on Monday afternoon at around 1:20 pm. He was pronounced dead less than an hour […]
Rina Sawayama has just shared the final single, “Hurricanes,” from her upcoming album, Hold the Girl, which is out this Friday. The song features a slew of melodic guitars and a gradual build before taking off and becoming a blissful anthem with lyrics about conquering and enjoying the challenges life throws at a person. “Hurricanes” follows […]
Fresh off last week’s release of his self-titled album and a performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, SPIN‘s May cover star Yungblud has detailed a massive 2023 world tour. The 29-city leg will kick off on April 29 in Seattle and wrap on July 25 in Kansas City, Mo. Los Angeles-based pop rockers The Regrettes are […]
Weyes Blood will release her new album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, on Nov. 18 through Sub Pop, led by its opening track “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody,” which California-born singer/songwriter Natalie Mering describes a “Buddhist anthem.” [embedded content][embedded content] The 10-track album is the follow-up to 2019’s Titanic Rising. It was produced […]
Kane Brown, Luke Bryan and Chris Stapleton will headline the 2023 edition of the Stagecoach festival, to be held April 28-30 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., the same site that will host Coachella the two weekends prior. “Every time I’ve played at Stagecoach it’s even better than the time before. They have a […]
Britney Spears returned to Instagram over the weekend to rail against her 13-year conservatorship and hint that she “probably” won’t perform live again due to being “pretty traumatized” and “pissed as fuck.” The text has since been deleted from the post, but the accompanying photo remains of a completely nude Spears facing away from the […]
When you think of Fall Out Boy, the first name you think of probably isn’t Joe Trohman — and he’s perfectly fine with that. But things weren’t always that way for the heavily tattooed guitarist who co-founded the band with Pete Wentz when he was a teenager and has since spent most of his life […]
The avant garde-leaning Big Ears festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary event on March 30-April 2, 2023 at a host of venues in Knoxville, Tenn., with a lineup drawing from the best and brightest of the adventurous music world. Among the highlights are an eight concert, 70th birthday program centered around composer/musician John Zorn with […]
The National‘s Bryce Dessner is returning to his pre-fame alma mater of Yale as the first Artist-In-Residence at the university’s newly opened Schwarzman Center. Dessner has “assembled and commissioned new multi-disciplinary works from a roster of women creators” such as Julia Bullock, Ash Fure, Nathalie Joachim, Kaneza Schaal and Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, which will be performed […]
I share a middle name with one of my nieces, a connective thread tying the two of us together. As she grew up, into that golden age where a child begins to find her own place in the world, that connective thread bound us not only in name, but our respective love and deep obsessions […]