Music

George Michael‘s family remembered the late singer on the one-year anniversary of his death with a tribute note published on his website. “This year has been a series of new and tough challenges for those of us close and loyal to [Michael], not least of which was steeling ourselves this …

Scottish post-rockers Mogwai explore the world of dirt-track racing in the new documentary-style video for “Crossing the Road Material.” The track appears on the band’s latest album, Every Country’s Sun, which arrived in September. The Antony Crook-directed clip opens with a brief interview with one racer, Johnny Herchinger, who talks …

Cleveland, Ohio, holds a special place in the heart of Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. It’s the town where he learned to love music and first met his future Cars bandmate Benjamin Orr. It’s the first place he ever played his songs in front of an audience. And on April 14th, …

Eminem tackles white privilege and racial profiling on the explosive new song “Untouchable,” a track from hisupcoming album Revival. The song was produced by Mr. Porter and built around a sample of Cheech & Chong’s rock pastiche, “Earache My Eye.” “Feels like we’re stuck in a time warp to me/ …

Taylor Swift delivered the live debuts of a pair of Reputation songs at the singer’s first concert appearance in 10 months when Swift took the stage at Los Angeles’ the Forum for the KIIS Jingle Ball concert. Swift’s six-song set featured the live debuts of both “Look What You Made …

UPDATE:Jeezy has unveiled the 13-song track list for his forthcoming album, Pressure, via Twitter. The LP will feature guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Puff Daddy, 2 Chainz, YG, Rick Ross, Trey Songz and more. Jeezy will release his eighth studio album, Pressure, December 15th via Def Jam. The …

The music that saxophonist Pharoah Sanders made in the late Sixties and early Seventies will probably always be categorized as jazz. But that seems wrong, somehow. Where bebop is all about form and its infinite variations, the sounds put forth on Sanders albums such as1967’s Tauhid, 1969’s Jewels of Thought, …

Just two days before Thanksgiving, Scott Miller heads outdoors at an early morning hour. There’s work to be done. Since 2011, he’s been logging most of his time at his family’s cattle farm near Staunton, Virginia, surrounded by 200 acres of rolling Shenandoah Valley countryside. Miller runs the place, overseeing …

When Lee Ann Womack recorded “Take the Devil Out of Me” for her new album The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone, she did so standing in the very spot where George Jones recorded the same song in the late Fifties: on a gold star adorning the floor of SugarHill …

Partying on the beach is nothing new for modern-day music festivals, but Tortuga Music Festival has made a tradition of bringing in fans to help save the very ocean along which the three-day event takes place. Entering its sixth year in 2018, Tortuga has announced next year’s lineup, led by …