Music

Dierks Bentley‘s inaugural Seven Peaks Festival will include a nostalgic salute to Nineties country music featuring some of the decade’s most successful artists. Set for the first night of the Labor Day weekend Colorado music-and-camping festival, “Hot Country Night” will showcase performances by Clint Black, Sawyer Brown, Terri Clark and …

Years ago, Bell Biv DeVoe did a one-off show in Amsterdam with Bobby Brown, their former groupmate in New Edition. “It was interesting, because he went on after us, and you could tell he felt like there was some smoke on that stage,” Bell Biv DeVoe’s Michael Bivins remembers. “It …

Kendrick Lamar accepted the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his recordDAMN.during a ceremony at Columbia University in New York City. The distinction made the Lamar thefirst non-classical or jazz artist to receive the honor. In an introduction that echoed the Pulitzer board’s original announcement, the presenter calledDAMN.,Lamar’s fourth LP, as …

Lykke Li unveiled two new songs from her upcoming album: “Two Nights,” featuring Portland rapper Aminé, and “Sex Money Feelings Die.” The Swedish singer’sSo Sad So Sexycomes out June 8th via RCA. “Two Nights” finds Lykke Li ruminating on the whereabouts of an absent partner. “Two nights in a row, …

Bon Iver‘s manager Kyle Frenette, who in February announced he would run as a Democratic challenger in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, withdrew his candidacy in a statement Friday. “I didn’t get into this race because I wanted to be a politician but because I wanted to be a representative. I …

On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Brynn Cartelli became the youngest contestant to ever win The Voice. Throughout the show, she tackled dramatic ballads – Lady Gaga’s’ “You and I,” Adele’s “Skyfall” – and impressed viewers with her vocal poise. As longtime Voice coach and Maroon Five singer Adam Levine put it …

Blake Shelton has a 50 percent chance of winning Season 14 of The Voice, and he’s doing his best to ensure those odds lean in his favor. In part one of the season finale on Monday, Shelton’s two remaining contestants Spensha Baker and Kyla Jade delivered some of their best …

Reggie Lucas, the Grammy-winning musician who played guitar for Miles Davis and later penned and produced some of Madonna‘s earliest hits, died Saturday at the age of 65. Lucas’ daughter Lisa confirmed her father’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that he died of complications from heart disease. “Reggie Lucas, my …

FormerDave Matthews Bandviolinist Boyd Tinsley has been sued for sexual harassment by musician James Frost-Winn. Tinsley recruited the trumpeter for the band the violinist assembled called Crystal Garden. The suit, obtained by Rolling Stone, claims that Tinsley “discovered” Winn in 2007 when he was 18 years old and playing as …

Ashley Monroe took her unabashedly seductive “Hands on You” to late-night television Monday night, performing the track from her recently released albumSparrowon Late Night With Seth Meyers. With its references to “innuendoes indiscreet,” and wandering hands getting busy in a locked bathroom stall and a motel room, “Hands on You” …