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When soul-singing garage-rocker Liz Brasher moved to Memphis last year, she found a city whose diversity mirrored her own music. Since then, she’s become something of an ambassador for the area, championing a sound steeped in Tennessee influences — from the big-throated thrust of gospel music to the rhythmic strut …

Cyndi Lauper has tapped A$AP Rocky, Bebe Rexha, Amanda Palmer and more to appear at her eighth annual “Cyndi Lauper and Friends: Home for the Holidays” benefit concert. The show will take place December 8th at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. The eclectic lineup will also feature blues …

In 2014, Sharon Van Etten released Are We There, whichRolling Stone gave four stars, saying it grew the singer-songwriter’s “trademark examinations of romantic decay to cathedral-like scale.” Contributing editor Rob Sheffield still calls it “one of the great albums of the century.” But just a year after its release, Van …

Ella Mai‘s “Boo’d Up” just might have the zaniest origin story of any recent hit: In December of last year, almost exactly 10 months after the song was first released to little fanfare, a patron requested the track at a club in Oakland. “The whole place went, ‘Woo!’” DJ Big …

Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions may have cost his hotel empire oodles of money, he may have lost some of his best friends, and he may ultimately be forced to pay tens of millions in back taxes, but, hey, at least he’ll have a lifetime supply of Altoids when this is …

The influential black-metal band Mayhem will reissue their second album, 2000’s Grand Declaration of War, later this fall. The album, which came six years after their celebrated first LP, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, found the group incorporating elements of prog and art-rock into its typically grim sound. Drummer Hellhammer and …

Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, Elvis Costello and Nickelback were among the musicians enlisted by Jimmy Kimmel for his latest edition of “Mean Tweets.” Targeted to last night’s American Music Awards, the musicians gamely read negative tweets about themselves and then responded. Other artists in the segment include Halsey, The Chainsmokers, …

When Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, the Cranberries‘ major-label debut, was released in March of 1993, “we were gutted,” says Noel Hogan, the band’s guitarist and co-songwriter. The reason? “It came out and basically disappeared without a trace,” he recalls. “So we figured, ‘That’s it. We’re …

Stop us if you’ve heard this one several times before: There’s this gentleman who’s in the business of show. He’s famous, established, king of his hill, top of his respective heap — could be the moving pictures, could be good ol’ arena rock & roll. Once upon a time, fame …

Paul McCartney headlined the first night of Austin City Limits on October 5th with an epic show in Zilker Park, high-energy even by his standards—even in the withering heat, this most unwitherable of rock legends just hates to put down his guitar and leave the stage. The sweat was visibly …