Music

Nick Cave described Anita Lane — the late singer-songwriter who worked extensively with the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — as “the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far,” in a tribute shared on his “Red Hand Files” site. Lane’s death was announced …

Andra Day has released a video for her new song “Phone Dies,” produced by Anderson .Paak. The clip is a “docu-style” video shot entirely on Day’s iPhone and features a montage of photos and videos that the Grammy-nominated singer has taken of herself, ranging from seductive to just goofy. “This …

On Saturday, April 24th, DMX took his last ride through the streets of New York. Flanked by thousands of motorcycles, his blood red casket sat atop a monster truck with the words “Long Live DMX” emblazoned on the side as it made its way from his hometown of Yonkers to …

During one particularly striking moment in New Jersey musician Topaz Jones’s stunning short film Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma, Jones’s grandmother, Emma Janice Jones, reveals the riches that evaded their family. Jones’s great great grandfather, Marshall Jones, was a cotton farmer who saw an entire season’s yield destroyed by the …

National Geographic hosted an Earth Day Eve virtual concert on Wednesday night, featuring at-home performances by Willie Nelson, Maggie Rogers, Yo-Yo Ma, Ziggy Marley, and many more. From his balcony overlooking the beautiful Los Angeles skyline, Rostam performed his new song “These Kids We Knew,” juxtaposing four videos of him …

Stephen Marley will celebrate his birthday and 4/20 with a livestream concert on Tuesday. The performance kicks off at noon E.T. via CEEK, as well as through virtual reality on the CEEK VR app. Marley will perform a six-song setlist — “Chase Dem,” “Hey Baby,” “Mind Control,” “One Good Spliff,” …

With the NPR offices still closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Rina Sawayama was the latest artist to perform for their Tiny Desk Concert series and make creative use of their “at-home” mandate. Sawayama and her band played from the top floor of a London office building dressed in fashion-forward …

As genres meld and music travels online, regional signifiers say less about an artist’s output than they once did. Atlanta, for example, is a hip-hop keystone known as the home of trap music, but new waves of talent, as disparate as J.I.D and Playboi Carti, are experimenting with mood and …

Bad Bunny appeared on The Late Late Show to reveal his former rivalry with host James Corden, who was once known as Good Bunny. “What I’m most proud of is being part of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of music,” Corden said in the clip. Bad Bunny …

Israeli artist Noga Erez appeared onJimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night to perform “Views,” a song off her latest albumKids. In a set-up reminiscent of NPR’s Tiny Desk at-home series during the pandemic, Erez and her band performed together in a tiny room, surrounded by lush house plants and succulents. (The …