Music

Little Big Town embrace the carefree days of the coming season with the just-released video for their irresistible new single, “Summer Fever.” Opening with the group members riding bicycles together on their way to an outdoor party, the clip is less casual sun-and-skin than their previous summer blockbusters “Pontoon” and …

Kelly Clarkson gave the television debut of her cover of the Guess Who’s “American Woman,” performing the classic hit on Wednesday’s 2018 CMT Music Awards. With an introduction from a gospel choir in full robes, Clarkson began her portion of the performance slow and low, smoke wafting across the stage …

Clarence Fountain, founding member and longtime leader of the gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama, died Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the age of 88. The Blind Boys of Alabama confirmed Fountain’s death in a statement on the group’s website. No cause of death was provided, but the …

Rap Release of the Month:Pusha-T, Daytona“I predict snow/Al Roker,” raps Pusha-T on this seven-track project’s “If You Know You Know.” But Daytona is more than just drug tales from a rapper who has specialized in coke rap since the dawn of the Aughts. As a master of metaphor and punchlines, …

For the first time onstage,Thom Yorke performed“Spectre,” the Radiohead song intended as a potential theme song for the 2015 James Bond film. Yorke gave the live debut during his solo show Tuesday in Milan, Italy, crooning in falsetto over dramatic yet sparse piano chords, as opposed to the original version’s …

Cardi B unveiled a radiant new video for “I Like It,” her Invasion of Privacy collaboration with reggaeton star J Balvin and Latin trap master Bad Bunny. The Eif Rivera-directed video was shot in Miami and finds Cardi, Bad Bunny and Balvin sauntering through city streets, taking a summer bash …

“It’s beautiful,” filmmaker David Lynch says backstage at music venue Brooklyn Steel, thinking about all he’s seen at the first Festival of Disruption to take place in New York. He’s sitting in a folding chair, leaning forward attentively in his trademark black suit, his hair a perfectly Lynchian asymmetrical mess. …

Americana music is set to take the spotlight on Nashville’s most hallowed stage this summer with a new concert series dubbed “Americana at the Ryman.” The six-week series will feature appearances by Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Amanda Shires and more. Modeled after the Ryman Auditorium’s long-running Bluegrass Nights Series, which …

In 2017, BTS boldly went where no K-Pop group had gone before, cracking the American Top 40 with a remix of their “Mic Drop” single featuring Steve Aoki and Desiigner. Love Yourself: Tear is the first all-new album from the seven-piece ensemble since this breakthrough. (April’s Face Yourself was mostly …

Phishhaveextended their 2018 North American tour to include a string of concerts this fall. The new trek launches with a two-night stand at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York, September 16th and 17th. The group will also play multiple nights in Hampton, Virginia, Nashville and Chicago before wrapping …