Music

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 …

Melvins formed a few years before anyone used the word “grunge” as the name of a genre, but they embodied the term perfectly with their deep, sludgy riffs and left-of-center songwriting. Since 1984, they’ve released dozens of albums of uncompromising and sometimes experimental music, and constantly challenged rock norms. When …

The Rolling Stones recently announced that their summer tour dates would be postponed so Mick Jagger could undergo surgery on his heart. “I’m devastated for having to postpone the tour,” Jagger said in a statement, “but I will be working very hard to be back on stage as soon as …

In Monday’s daily news show, host Charles Holmes has a special report on the shocking and tragic murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle, whose real name is Ermias Asghedom. The Los Angeles rapper earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album earlier this year. He was shot and killed in L.A. …