Music

Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams reunite on “Entrepreneur,” which the pair released Thursday at midnight. The song is accompanied by a new music video that spotlights black men and women, including Tyler, the Creator and Issa Rae, who have started their own businesses. “Entrepreneur” is “all about how tough it is …

Carly Rae Jepsen has announced a deluxe version of her cult hit album Emotion for its 5th anniversary featuring two bonus tracks, “Never Get to Hold You” and “Love Again.” Both tracks represent the best ofEmotion‘s ecstatic synth-pop: “Never Get to Hold You” is a simmering dance floor-friendly ballad that …

Jennifer Hudson stole the show at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, performing Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” inside the beautiful Chicago Cultural Center. Unsurprisingly, Hudson killed it, bringing her Broadway-level vocal chops to a timeless anthem for racial justice and hope. But the truly jaw-dropping moment …

Chris Hillman couldn’t have chosen a better song title for this excerpted chapter from his upcoming memoir, Time Between — out November 17th via BMG. The chapter, which covers the end of the Sixties, is called “Sin City,” a song off the Flying Burrito Brothers‘ 1969 debut, In the Gilded …

It took two years of phone calls and confusing negotiations to get myself invited to visit Toots Hibbert at his fortress-like pink stucco compound in the Red Hills section of Kingston, Jamaica. When I finally arrived, he wasn’t home. No one around seemed to know the whereabouts of the world’s …

The Killers have released the new song “Dying Breed” from their upcoming album Imploding the Mirage, set to arrive August 21st via Island Records. “Dying Breed” finds the Killers at their triumphant best, riding a steady, but tightly-wound chug over the course of the song’s first two minutes, then blowing …

Beginning in mid-July, Marcus King and his band played a series of concerts on a Nashville soundstage with guests including Billy Strings, Brent Hinds from Mastodon, Jennifer Hartswick, Devon Gilfillian and blues singer-songwriter Early James. The shows were a reminder of what music fans have been missing for the last …

Last weekend, in a new building with sweeping views of the city’s skyline in a gentrifying neighborhood in East Nashville, organizers advertised a party on social media dubbed “The V.I.P. Viewing of the Fashion House.” Masks were scarce. Hookahs were plentiful. And bodies by the hundreds packed and writhed in …

Gearing up for the reissue of Elliott Smith‘s 1995 self-titled album, Palehound dropped a searing rendition of “Southern Belle.” The cover arrives on August 6th, which would have been Smith’s 51st birthday. Palehound intensifies the song’s bustling acoustic rhythm with an electric guitar riff. “I don’t want to walk around/I …

In April, country duo Maddie & Tae were scheduled to launch their headlining Tourist in This Town Tour with rising trio Avenue Beat serving as their support. That arrangement fell apart due to the pandemic, but the performers still managed to collaborate on a couple new recordings for Spotify Singles, …