Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G will headline the 2026 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which descends on Empire Polo Field in Indio, Ca., from April 10-12 and 17-19. See the complete poster below. The always-eclectic lineup pulls from nearly every music genre and era imaginable, with Italian DJ Anyma […]
As expected, after the overwhelming response to their North American tour in tribute of R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruction and a 2024 run tackling Murmur, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy will reprise the festivities next year in honor of the 40th anniversary of Michael Stipe and company’s Life’s Rich Pageant. They’ll be joined by their trusty band of Jon […]
It’s 8:00 a.m. in Los Angeles and Mark Laita’s already been up for five hours. If you’re one of the over 6.6 million who subscribe to his YouTube channel, Soft White Underbelly, you’ve witnessed the heart-wrenching, disconcerting stories he’s captured in nearly 3,000 videos; up-close tales told by real people, many suffering from addiction and […]
Bad Bunny and Amazon Music are teaming for a variety of initiatives based in the artist’s native Puerto Rico, including a global livestream of a newly added Sept. 20 finale for his No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí: Una Más residency at José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan. The run began July 11 and […]
Paul McCartney will warm up for the Sept. 26 relaunch of his Got Back Tour in Palm Springs, Ca., with a performance three days earlier at the 4,500-capacity Santa Barbara Bowl. It will be the Beatle great’s first appearance at the historic venue, which will require fans to secure their phones in Yondr pouches for […]
Chuck Inglish today isn’t the same Chuck Inglish from 2022. He sounds noticeably different, like he’s weathered some recent storms that have reshaped his perspective on the world. Throughout the interview, it becomes painfully clear the Cool Kids co-founder has, in fact, been chewed up and spit out over the last three years, a period […]
Chris Daughtry has gone over to the dark side. You can see it right on his skin: his arms and shoulders newly blacked out, smothering his previous tattoos under unbroken sleeves of ink. And it can be heard in his newest music, which leans away from his earlier pop-rock radio past toward something both heavier […]
Big Daddy Kane takes a couple of deep breaths backstage at The Railyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he’s performing a free show as part of Raashan Ahmad’s Wonderful Fantastic Hip Hop Festival. A revolving door of fans are hounding him for photos and he respectfully obliges, although it’s clear he’s trying to get […]
Spend a few hours with Die Spitz and you’ll realize a bit of chaos follows the band wherever they go. Not that it’s a bad thing. In three years since releasing their debut EP, this ad hoc group of 22-year-old friends and sometimes roommates who meld punk, metal, hardcore, ’90s alt rock (and melody when […]
For one cruel moment it felt like we had David Bowie back. He went silent for nearly a decade after suffering a heart attack during a performance in Prague in 2004, resurfacing in 2013 with The Next Day, a strong collection of songs that felt like a comfortable, but not revelatory, coda to a multi-decade-long […]