Most people visit a restaurant for a meal, and the wilderness to decompress. For Eric Church, they were the sites of a creative endeavor. In January 2020, Church settled in with his band at the Artisinal restaurant on the North Carolina side of the Smoky Mountains for a month of music-making. The goal was simple:
By the time Ella Langley’s second album, Dandelion, arrived April 10, the country star had already made chart history several times over — and symbolized the commercial boom that country music has experienced in the 2020s. All decade long, artists like Langley, Morgan Wallen and Megan Moroney have been smashing records and spilling over onto the
When the joint Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service tour – paying tribute to the indie classics Transatlanticism and Give Up, respectively – passed through the Washington, D.C., area in 2023, Ben Gibbard made an unexpected detour. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “I had been listening to an egregious amount of Fugazi,
Few K-pop groups have built a fictional world as intricate as aespa‘s — and fewer still keep expanding it rather than leaving it behind. Since debuting in November 2020 with KWANGYA, the parallel realm, and ae, the virtual self, the SM Entertainment quartet of KARINA, GISELLE, WINTER and NINGNING has treated every release not as
It’s only fitting Brooklyn native Young M.A is back in NYC promoting her forthcoming Kween album on Biggie’s birthday (May 21). While she lives about 800 miles south in Georgia these days, she still feels B.I.G.’s “energy and aura” whenever the 34-year-old returns home to the Big Apple borough. Explore See latest videos, charts and
Sometimes, the universe aligns perfectly. Take the “Michael Jackson of the Caribbean,” Machel Montano, unveiling his new documentary the same week as the late, original Michael Jackson dominates the Billboard charts, for example. On Friday (May 29), Like Ah Boss: Journey of a Soca King – Machel Montano officially debuts in the U.S. on all
Add Boards of Canada to the long, long list of artists who are not interested in being part of the Trump administration‘s propaganda machine. On Thursday (May 28), the elusive Scottish electronic duo and their label, Warp Records, issued a joint statement lashing out at the American administration for using the group’s music in a
The 2026 Riot Fest lineup is another music-lover’s grab bag of punk, pop, hip-hop and new wave, topped by headliners Tool, Twenty One Pilots, Pierce the Veil and Alanis Morissette. Those acts and many more will set up in Chicago’s Douglass Park from Sept. 18-20 for the annual throwdown that will also feature sets from
Noah Kahan is gathering some of his favorite musical friends for the 2027 Out of the Blue Festival. The four-night concert will take place at the Moon Palace Resort in Riviera Cancun, Mexico from Jan. 7-10 and feature a headline set from Kahan, as well as music from Paramore singer and solo star Hayley Williams,
Irish star CMAT has shared a statement responding to misogynistic body-shaming comments following a performance at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend. Writing on Instagram on Thursday (May 28) the musician, born Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, said she felt “compelled to wade in and speak for myself” following the abuse posted about her weight and body following
