Music

Sunday, June 21st, marks what would have been Queen + Adam Lambert’s final gig of a 14-date residency at London’s O2 Arena. Although the string of concerts were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the band will still celebrate the occasion with a “Tour Watch Party.” The stream will begin …

Duffy has dropped her new song, “River in the Sky,” the second track she has released in 2020 following her radio-only song, “Something Beautiful.” On the tender, piano-driven song, the Welsh artist sings about being “alone/afraid of the dark” and the ways in which she copes with it, envisioning someone …

“I haven’t picked a guitar up since they canceled me in Arizona almost two months ago,” says Buddy Guy on a recent morning from his Chicago home, where he’s getting ready to put on a mask and head to the grocery store. “I try to follow the rules, man.” The …

Nominations for the 2020 Americana Honors and Awards were announced Monday morning, with several of the previous year’s high-profile roots releases collecting nods. The annual event is set to take place September 16th at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, though in what form precisely has yet to be revealed. Frequent Americana nominee …

After the massive success of 2018’s Tree of Forgiveness and the tour behind it, John Prine started a new album. The first song he recorded was “I Remember Everything,” a gorgeous ballad where he looks back at snapshots from his life — both onstage and with his family — while …

UPDATE: Goldenvoice, the organizers behind Coachella and Stagecoach, announced tentative new dates for the annual festival. Coachella’s two weekends will take place April 9 – 11 and 16-18, while Stagecoach will take place April 23 -25. “All 2020 passes will be honored in 2021,” organizers wrote. “Current pass holders will …

Singer Bonnie Pointer, who co-founded the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters in 1969 with her sister June, died Monday at 69 years old. Expanding to a quartet with the addition of Anita and Ruth Pointer, the group’s early days were notable for their campy chic attire, their vocal style a throwback to …

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ravi Shankar, the Indian composer, sitar musician, and collaborator of artists like George Harrison. In honor of the milestone, folk-rock singer Johnny Irion has assembled a group of all-stars to record a new song for Shankar, “Inside the Endless Om.” …

As protests continued around the U.S. following the death of George Floyd, Peter Gabriel wrote Monday in a moving Twitter statement that he was “horrified” by the “racist murder.” “This type of brutality needs to be confronted directly, with justice clearly seen to be done whenever & wherever it occurs,” …

There is perhaps no photographer who captured the Eighties and Nineties hip-hop scenes in New York better than Ricky Powell. Known best for his working relationship with the Beastie Boys, Powell was a prolific shooter who captured iconic images of Run-DMC, Madonna, Eric B and Rakim, Laurence Fishburne, Keith Haring, …