Olivia Rodrigo is celebrating the fifth birthday of her breakthrough single, “drivers license,” by today (Jan. 8) releasing a cover of the song by friend and collaborator David Byrne. It’s the first in a series of covers pegged to the upcoming fifth anniversary of Rodrigo’s debut album, SOUR. Byrne’s take on “license” is available on […]
Bruno Mars will release an as-yet-untitled new single on Friday (Jan. 9), which will be the first taste of his long-awaited next album, The Romantic. The project is due Feb. 27 from Atlantic and is the follow-up to 2016’s 24K Magic, which won six Grammys. Mars has never been far from the spotlight in the […]
Robyn will finally break a nearly eight-year album hiatus on March 27 with Sexistential, a nine-track release on new label Young. On the heels of first single “Dopamine” in November, the Swedish pop favorite today (Jan. 7) unveiled two more tracks, including the title cut and “Talk to Me.” A Casper Sejersen-directed video for the […]
Longtime Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear will miss three of the band’s upcoming shows after “smashing the shit out of his left foot” in “the classic tradition of rockstars having bizarre gardening accidents,” according to a social media post. Multi-instrumentalist Jason Falkner, who has played with Beck and St. Vincent and was also a member […]
Pavement told fans its one-off October 2024 performance in New York would be its “last show for a long time,” but Stephen Malkmus and company did play two festivals, a warmup club gig and CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in 2025 while helping promote the off-kilter film Pavements. In a surprise move, the […]
Lorde, A$AP Rocky and Stray Kids will delight the throngs at the Governors Ball festival from June 5-7 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, N.Y., as part of a youthful, genre-agnostic lineup. Beyond rapper Baby Keem, who hasn’t performed live in several years or released new music, also set to appear are Kali Uchis, […]
Billy Joel has been off the road since last February while recovering from the brain disorder normal pressure hydrocephalus, but the 76-year-old ailing music legend stunned fans on Jan. 2 in Wellington, Fla., when, with the help of a cane, he walked onstage to join the longtime Joel tribute band Turnstiles and perform his songs […]
A$AP Rocky has dropped another new single, “Punk Rocky,” ahead of the Jan. 16 release of Don’t Be Dumb, his first album in eight years. The accompanying video stars Winona Ryder, Danny Elfman, Thundercat and A$AP Nast and introduces five of Rocky’s six Don’t Be Dumb-specific alter egos, who are apparently named GR1M, RUGAHAND, BABUSHKA […]
With his 1982 song “I Have the Touch” enjoying new visibility thanks to its inclusion in the Timothée Chalamet-starring film Marty Supreme, Peter Gabriel is turning his attention to his next studio album, o\i. The project’s lead track, “Been Undone,” can be sampled below in its Tchad Blake-helmed Dark-Side Mix. “I’m delighted to say that tonight, […]
Longtime the Cure guitarist/keyboardist Perry Bamonte, who played on such iconic albums as 1992’s Wish and was onstage with the U.K. band for nearly 500 shows over the past 35 years, has died at the age of 65 after a short illness. A London native, the left-handed player had a brief stint working in a […]