Music

At 85 years old, Country Music Hall of Fame member Willie Nelson remains a headlining concert attraction and a prolific recording artist. On September 14th, Nelson will release his second album of 2018, paying homage to friend and fellow music icon Frank Sinatra. My Way, the follow-up to April’s Last …

There’s a streak of fierce independence in Taylor Bennett, and it’s not because he also happens to be Chance the Rapper’s little brother. The Chicago-based artist has been carving his own lane in the city’s stacked hip-hop community with promising and ebullient full-length projects like 2015’s Broad Shoulders and 2017’s …

Bob Weir, Patti Smith and Flea lead the lineup for 2018’s Pathway to Paris concert, set for September 14th at the Masonic in San Francisco, California. The event, which caps off the Global Climate Action Summit, focuses on the potential for cities to achieve and extend beyond the climate targets …

Songwriting hero John Prine takes viewers on a star-studded tour of Nashville in the new video for “Knockin’ on Your Screen Door,” a joyfully rambling cut off his 2018 album, The Tree of Forgiveness. Directed by photographer David McClister, the clip features special guests like the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, …

Without warning, Zayn Malik has unveiled his sleek new cover of the Elvis Presley classic “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” The surprise cover of the Blue Hawaii hit – later reinterpreted and re-popularized as UB40’s Hot 100-topping smash – finds Malik manipulating the song’s tempo and melody while keeping the …

On releases like 2014’s Adhesive and 2015’s LP, this Providence beatmaker threw dance music into the mosh pit and noise music onto the dancefloor. His distorted, gritty, squawking, blown-out glurpbangers had all the charred and flayed edges of your favorite power-electronics bloodletter, but they were still decidedly funky, a place …

Paul McCartney cut most of his new album, Egypt Station, in Los Angeles and Sussex, England, but for the finishing touches, there was only one place to go: Abbey Road in London. For producer Greg Kurstin, stepping into the studio where the Beatles recorded the vast majority of their music …

Panic! At the Discoscored their second straight Number One album as Brendon Urie and company’snew LPPray for the Wickedopened atop the Billboard 200. Pray for the Wickedsold 180,000 total copies in its first week of release, giving it the best sales week for an alternative rock album since U2’sSongs of …

EDITORS’ PICK: John Coltrane, Both Directions At Once: The Lost AlbumThis previously unreleased 1963 session captures the jazz legend with his “Classic Quartet,” which was rounded out by pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones. “This set has its own scrappy, off-the-cuff appeal,” writes Hank Shteamer. “Most …

Alice in Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell knew late Pantera drummer Vinnie Paullonger, he says, “than I’ve known the guys in my own band.” It was a relationship that began when Cantrell, Paul and Paul’s brother/bandmate Dimebag Darrell were living in Texas in the mid-Eighties, and continued as they all rose to …