Music

Friday marks Opening Day for the New York Mets’ COVID-abbreviated 2020 baseball season, and to celebrate the Strokes have shared the video for their New Abnormal closer “Ode to the Mets.” According to the band, the video was inspired by the waltz-through-history seen in the opening credits of the sitcom …

Fleetwood Mac will release a massive box set documenting the band’s early years, out September 4th on Rhino. Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974 will consist of eight CDs, beginning with their third album, 1969’s Then Play On.The lineup shifted quite a bit in these years, most notably when founding guitarist Peter Green …

Fiona Apple co-wrote “New York Doesn’t Like Your Face,” a hilarious new song for the animated series Central Park. Written with David Lucky, the song appears in the series finale and was performed by Audra McDonald, who voices the character Ashley. “New York doesn’t like your face/We’ve got to give …

Kanye West held his first presidential rally Sunday evening, days after filing an FEC Form 2 Statement of Candidacy under his recently announced Birthday Party. “I don’t give a fuck if I win the presidency or not,” he said at the event, stressing that his aim is to be “of …

Throughout pop history, the legacy of post-Beatles boy bands and teen pop have lacked respect. Journalist Maria Sherman’s new book, Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS, shakes off decades of under-appreciation for the pop subgenre and lays out a fascinating, in-depth history of the …

Last week, the Rolling Stones announced plans for a super-deluxe edition of their 1973 LP Goats Head Soup. It features a remastered version of the original album along with alternate mixes, rarities, instrumental tracks, a complete 1973 show taped in Brussels, and three previously unreleased songs from the era. The …

Pop Smoke has ended Drake’s latest reign atop the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, with the late Brooklyn rapper taking the top spot for the week of July 3rd through July 9th. Pop Smoke amassed a whopping 251.1 million song streams thanks to the release of his posthumous album, Shoot …

Kanye West paid tribute to his late mother Donda with a short, new song named after her, which he released Sunday evening to mark what would’ve been her 71st birthday. “Donda” features the former teacher reciting KRS-One‘s “Sound of Da Police” over swirling gospel vocals. After a minute-and-a-half of the …

Megan Thee Stallion took to theLegendary floor during the HBO Max ballroom competition’s first season finale. The Houston rapper performed her hit song “Savage” with help from the talented contestants from the show. Dubbed “our avenging angel” by the show’s host/MC Dashaun Wesley, Thee Stallion took the stage in giant …

At every Metallica show since the Eighties — before the riffs, solos and drum fills — there’s a rumble of timpani and piano and the lonesome keen of an oboe. Those instruments comprise the opening moments of composer Ennio Morricone’s “The Ecstasy of Gold,” one of his most famous compositions …