Music

John Fogerty celebrated the 50th anniversary of Woodstock this year by playing a series of special gigs packed with songs from the original 1969 festival. Many were by Creedence Clearwater Revival, but he also covered tunes by fellow Woodstock vets Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix and Sly & The Family Stone. …

When Charly Bliss entered Sunset Studios to begin work on their second album, the Brooklyn quartet already knew they had way too many songs for one album. So, the band has collected five of those songs together for a surprise EP, Supermoon. Supermoon more directly recalls the bubblegum-grunge of Guppy …

Kesha‘s follow-up to 2017’s emotionally weighty, rock-leaning Rainbow started off as what she describes as a “psychedelic country record.” But a phone call from her brother sent her in another direction. “He was like, ‘Why don’t you write some pop songs?’ ” she says. “ ‘You’re good at it, you like it.’ ” …

Taylor Swift is serving double duty in the forthcoming new film version of Cats. In addition to her role as Bombalurina, Swift collaborated with lauded composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for a new song called “Beautiful Ghosts.” In a video about the song, Swift, Lloyd Webber and director-screenwriter Tom Hooper discuss …

Spanish rapper Mala Rodríguez teams up with Puerto Rican goofball Guaynaa in the racy new reggaeton track, “Dame Bien,” or “Give It to Me Good.” And with an assist from Big Freedia, Queen of New Orleans bounce, the two acquaint themselves with a different kind of perreo intenso. Flanked by …

L ana Del Rey is sitting across from Elton John in the kitchen of his Beverly Hills home, where she’s about to talk with her musical hero. But there’s a problem. “Wait a minute, my notes!” she says. “I have 13 pages! Where is my purse?” Elton calls for his …

The Who‘s Tommy is returning to Broadway in 2021. The musical adaptation of the Who’s 1969 rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind pinball wizard premiered on Broadway in 1993 and closed two years later after 889 performances. Along the way, it racked up five Tony Awards and proved …

Bruce Springsteen delivered a surprise introduction Saturday before two Western Stars screenings at a movie theater in his native Freehold, New Jersey. “We knew we weren’t going to tour, so I tried to figure out a way to get the music to you,” Springsteen told the awed audience at the …

For the past two nights, David Crosby has joined Steely Dan at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for special renditions of the Crosby, Stills and Nash tune “Wooden Ships” and the Steely Dan classic “Reelin’ In the Years.” One attendee, Joshua Goodman, posted a video on Facebook featuring …

Taylor Swift joined NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series for an intimate acoustic set featuring three songs from her latest LP, Lover. The singer-songwriter — and recent Rolling Stone cover star — approached the mini-show like an episode of Behind the Music, detailing the inspirations behind “The Man,” “Lover,” “Death By …