Music

Chelsea Wolfe has released her latest video for “American Darkness,” a track from her forthcoming albumBirth of Violence, out September 13th. The moody, black-and-white clip, directed by Karlos Rene Ayala, features disparate people – mostly women – dancing and expressing themselves in solitude. Wolfe says the video was inspired by …

Philadelphia indie rocker (Sandy) Alex G unveiled a devastating new song about the death of a friend, “Hope,” which will appear on his forthcoming album House of Sugar, out September 13th via Domino. “Hope” is centered around an upbeat rush of acoustic guitar and shuffling drums, but the song gets …

Half the joy of being an R&B fan is incessantly complaining about the state of R&B — the lack of hits, the sexlessness of its 2019, the cottage industry of lullaby drones filling downtempo streaming playlists. Then Ann Marie drops “My Body,”and my complaints about R&B quickly seem lazy. The …

Steven Van Zandt reflects on his early days as a musician, the first time he met and performed with Bruce Springsteen and portraying his beloved character Silvio Dante on the Sopranos in the latest installment of “The First Time.” Van Zandt traces the first time he played guitar to 1963, …

Daptone Records and the Helsinki, Finland-based soul label Timmion Records teased their upcoming compilation, Bad Education, with a beautifully beseeching new song, “Until You’re Mine,” from Wanda Felicia and the Timmion house band Cold Diamond & Mink. “Until You’re Mine” boasts a drum and bass groove that moves with a …

Thanks to Taylor Swift, the world is talking about recorded music “masters” – and the perils facing artists who give them away to record companies. If you’re not up to speed, Swift has been left in a situation where the recorded music rights to her first six albums are owned …

The Raconteurs‘ Help Us Stranger landed at Number One on Rolling Stone‘s inaugural Top 200 Albums chart, earning 108,200 album-equivalent units during the week of June 21st through June 27th. The band’s success was driven by old-fashioned physical album sales, which accounted for more than 95% of the group’s first-week …

On the eve of the release of her new EP, Julia Michaels visited The Tonight Show Friday to showcase the single “Hurt Again.” Following an enthusiastic intro by Jimmy Fallon where the late-night host briefly sang Michaels songs like “Issues” and “Anxiety,” she launched into the infectious track, which appears …

“Prince was like nobody I had ever worked with before,” says one of his longtime recording engineers, Peggy McCreary. “He never explained anything to me. You never knew who a song was for until somebody got called in to sing on it.” McCreary, whose credits also include monolithic albums like …

Elton John was given the top French civilian award, the Legion d’Honneur, during a ceremony Friday at Élysée Palace, where the British icon was received the award from President Emmanuel Macron. After receiving the award at theannual Fete de la Musique, the Rocketman singer spoke to a crowd alongside Macron, …