K-pop sensations BTS made their Saturday Night Live debut with a performance of “Boy With Luv,” a track off their just-released new mini-album Map of the Soul: Persona, and their 2017 hit “Mic Drop.” Despite the presence of frequent SNL guest Halsey on “Boy With Luv,” the singer didn’t join …

On Friday Ellie Goulding released a new single, “Sixteen,” with a celebratory lyric video paying homage to her teen years and to her adolescent fans. “I’m so excited to share ‘Sixteen’ with everyone,” Goulding said in a statement. “That age was such a pivotal year for me in many ways …

“True love is making a comeback,” Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, announces over jovial piano chords. In “Everyday,” the second single off her new album, Titanic Rising, Mering seesaws between inescapable loneliness and the hazards of falling in love. “Got a lot of things to clear away/Got a lot of …

Backstage at a club in Sheffield, England, Priests singer Katie Alice Greer and guitarist G.L. Jaguar were arguing at the top of their lungs about the future of their band. It was the fall of 2017, and they had just started a European tour that was rapidly unraveling. “Gideon and …

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard veer into metal with their thundering, surreal new song “Planet B.” “Open your eyes and shoot the dingo/All this shit goes out the window,” the Australian psych-rockers bellow over fuzz-bass and harmonized hammer-on guitar leads. “Multi-flashing, rusting tractors/Dying heroes … There is no Planet …

The year 1969 was a significant one for Dolly Parton, who became a member of the Grand Ole Opry that January. It was also a year in which nearly every other major success she experienced was as part of a duo with then-business partner Porter Wagoner. In March 1969, Wagoner …

Jennifer Lopez throws a very chic carnival in her music video for new single “Medicine,” creating a dynamic freak show in monochrome white (and glitter). In the clip for the track, which features French Montana, Lopez takes on various roles, first as a fashionable fortune teller, then in a glittering, …

On April 6th, 2016, his 79th birthday, country music icon Merle Haggard died at his home in California’s San Joaquin Valley after a battle with pneumonia. In the three years since his passing, Haggard’s already sizeable legacy continues to inspire country artists and others touched by his image as the …

Ellie Goulding has released a new track, “In This Together,” a companion to the new Netflix original documentary series Our Planet. The music video for the inspiring number features wildlife footage from the series, including shots of young painted wolves, elephants bathing and penguins gathered on a beach. In the …

Brandi Carlile and Tanya Tucker furthered their newfound creative relationship on Wednesday night when the singers took the stage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium during a benefit for Thistle Farms, a local nonprofit benefitting women survivors of abuse and trafficking. Carlile introduced Tucker as the “great matriarch of country and western …