Music

Lyor Cohen has seen just about every curveball the music industry has to throw, but in his keynote speech at South by Southwest in Austin on Wednesday morning, his message was largely one of optimism. Cohen’s hour-long talk was heavy on nostalgia and autobiography, touching on everything from his days …

Kacey Musgraves has revealed another song off her upcoming Golden Hour album, posting a live video of her performance of “Rainbow” to Twitter after three shows in the U.K. and Ireland during the 2018 C2C: Country to Country Festival. Writing that the song is dedicated to “anyone with any kind …

Following a series of rumors and retracted concert listings, Beyoncé and Jay-Zofficially announced the OTR II stadium tour – a follow-up to their massive joint On the Run trek from 2014, which promoted the singer’s self-titled LP and the rapper’s Magna Carta Holy Grail. Following a 15-date European leg in …

To mark today’s release of the Jimi Hendrix posthumous album Both Sides of the Sky, Experience Hendrix has unveiled a new video for the guitar god’s previously unreleased version of “Lover Man.” The John Vondracek-directed video features archival footage of Hendrix performing the song with his Band of Gypsys alongsode …

The Strokes‘ Albert Hammond Jr. played a measured, highly melodic new song titled “Set to Attack” on The Late Late Show on Wednesday. “Set to Attack” works in the same vein as the clean, chugging rock on the Strokes’ debut album. Hammond Jr. started his performance with minimal movements, standing …

Maren Morris made a little music history this week, becoming the first country artist to top Billboard‘s Dance Mix/Show Airplay chart since its 2003 inception, thanks to her Zedd and Grey collaboration “The Middle.” The trio released the electro-pop song in late January, with the track later appearing prominently in …

Earlier today, Lin-Manuel Miranda fulfilled his ultimate childhood fantasy by releasing “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s “The Hamilton Polka.” The hysterical tune, which manages to cram all of Hamilton into a frenetic five-minute polka, is the latest installment in Miranda’s ongoingHamildrop series, where artists like the Decemberists, Nas, Dave East and Aloe …

Black Panther continues to dominate at both the box office and on the Billboard 200 as the Kendrick Lamar-curated companion album finished at Number One for a second straight week. After the Marvel blockbuster raked in another $108 million in its second weekend of release – a second-week box office …

Even free birds can’t fly forever. This spring, Lynyrd Skynyrd will kick off the final tour of a long, storied career that spans more than a half-century. The two-year Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour launches May 4th in West Palm Beach, just four hours down the Florida coast …

Chris Cornell‘s widow Vicky Cornell opened up about the Soundgarden singer’s battle with addiction and his relapse prior to his suicide in a new interview with Good Morning America. The segment wasVicky’s first television interview since Cornell’s death in May 2017. “He loved his life. He would never have ever …