Music

Taking a quick break from the U.K. leg of her Oh, What a World Tour, Kacey Musgraves stopped at BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room in England to play a breathtaking cover of Keane‘s “Somewhere Only We Know.” The 2004 hit from the Britpop ensemble makes for a perfect fit in …

In 2016, Tom Krell, the man behind the project How to Dress Well, proclaimed, “there’s been a deficit of joy in music.” After gaining a following with songs that submerged attenuated falsetto pleas beneath a layer of electronics, he was moving “toward directness” on his Care album. The reason? “Because …

“Turn the Light On,” the first song on Julia Holter’s fifth album, begins in tumult. It crashes in: bows skidding across the strings of violins, drums tumbling as if down a craggy mountain, horns searing the scene like an irradiated sunset. Above all that, Holter sings, her voice high and …

Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino has revealed he is currently working on a film inspired by Bob Dylan‘s Blood on the Tracks. Speaking to the New Yorker ahead of the release of his Thom Yorke-scored Suspiria remake, Guadagnino said that a producer who owned the “theatrical rights” …

Thom Yorke throws his support behind an entire continent in his new song, “Hands Off the Antarctic.” The Radiohead frontman penned the shimmery, four-minute electronic instrumental for the environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace, who are running a “Help Protect the Antarctic Ocean” campaign. As his synthesizer blends blips with chilly, glacial …

Since his 2015 breakthrough Bladadah, Mozzy has tapped into a deep yet underexplored vein of West Coast street rap with consistently interesting results. Belying its media rep as simplistically violent “gangsta rap,” the Sacramento lyricist’s music is full of regret for past actions, entrepreneurial hope and hustle, and marked by …

Over the past few years. New England band Stove has consistently shown a real knack for endearing indie-rock on a series of albums and EPs with adorable titles like Is the Meat the Fell Out and Is Stupider (the latter of which featured the winning troika “Stupid,” “Stupider” and “Stupidest”). …

Imogen Heap shared two new instrumentals, “Platform 9¾” and “In Trouble (Again),” from her upcoming soundtrack adaptation of the score she penned for J.K. Rowling’s stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The new album, The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is available to pre-order ahead …

North Carolina natives the Avett Brothers are set to headline the Concert for Hurricane Florence Relief on November 13th at East Carolina University’s Minges Coliseum in Greenville. Also appearing will be Future Islands and Valient Thorr, bands with roots and connections to eastern North Carolina. Tickets for the concert, priced …

Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, returned to her home state to kick off the 44th season of PBS’ Austin City Limits, which airs on PBS on Saturday. The episode features a 13-song set spanning her career. She also performed “Severed Crossed Fingers” from 2014’s St. Vincent, a bonus track that …