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His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here’s the definitive guide to his best songs → Read More
From one about gold digging to another about PMS, these little-known tunes show the master songwriter's wit, wisdom and heart → Read More
Maren Morris, Kesha, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris performed at the All for the Hall concert in New York, benefitting the Country Music Hall of Fame. → Read More
How songs like "It's a Cheatin' Situation" and "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life" made Moe Bandy country music's tragic voice. → Read More
His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to his best songs → Read More
His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to his best songs → Read More
Houston native and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons discusses Hurricane Harvey's aftermath and the band's plans to donate $100,000 to relief efforts. → Read More
Houston native and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons discusses Hurricane Harvey's aftermath and the band's plans to donate $100,000 to relief efforts. → Read More
In the all-time ranking of memorable VMA moments, a speech by a descendant of Confederate general Robert E. Lee ( introducing Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer's mother, Susan Bro ) may not be able to beat, say, the fist-fight between Kid Rock and Tommy Lee. Yet in the context of the 2017 ceremony, it was undoubtedly a highlight, its tone consistent with a show in which artists repeatedly… → Read More
Kendrick Lamar opened the VMAs with another emphatic performance , blazing through "DNA" and "Humble" with taut focus. Both of the Damn. tracks were produced with club-shaking force by Mike Will Made It, but at the VMAs, Lamar reworked them as muscular funk-rock, full of ringing guitars and clobbering drum fills. He opened the performance clad head-to-toe in red and rapped from within a shifting… → Read More
From Katy Perry's spotty debut as host to Kendrick Lamar's victory to a Chester Bennington tribute, here's the evening's highs and lows → Read More
At this point, Ed Sheeran has rapped and collaborated with rappers more than, really, anybody but Ed Sheeran could possibly ask for. But it was still a little surprising when SoundCloud rap's favorite rock star Lil Uzi Vert crashed the stage to rap over the end of Sheeran's ubiquitous trop house chart-topper "The Shape of You." And when Sheeran began singing Uzi's "all my friends are dead" emo… → Read More
There was a lot to take in during Fifth Harmony's performance of "Angel" and "Down:" Tightly coordinated movements from the group, a slew of silver-suited dancers, Normani Kordei wowing the crowd by dropping into a split onstage, a brassy, EDM-inspired breakdown and a cool-as-ice Gucci Mane ambling onstage to deliver a laid-back verse. But all of this was overshadowed by Fifth Harmony's pointed… → Read More
There was a lot to take in during Fifth Harmony's performance of "Angel" and "Down:" Tightly coordinated movements from the group, a slew of silver-suited dancers, Normani Kordei wowing the crowd by → Read More
The Chicago rapper talks his personal debut LP: "There were certain things I was able to tap into ... that I had never really been able to vocalize" → Read More
The Chicago rapper talks his personal debut LP: "There were certain things I was able to tap into ... that I had never really been able to vocalize" → Read More
Luke Bryan performed an age-defying sold-out concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden. → Read More
Each passing year seems to bring more hand-wringing over the so-called "EDM bubble." Whether or not the shiny, mainstream, pop-dance sphere is set to burst, electronic music, as it always does, continues to rave on. This year's best albums prove the ostensible underground's in tip-top health, with dance fans ready for a darker and headier bent, from challenging young artists like Nicolas Jaar… → Read More
Before this, his debut studio full-length, Haitian-Canadian producer Kaytranada, racked up a near-encyclopedic discography of remixes and production credits. Officially and unofficially, he gave everyone from Talib Kweli to Erykah Badu to Janet Jackson a heavy dose of futurism, with vocals hinging on glossy, bubbling tracks drawing from Brit sounds like two-step and broken beat. It's no… → Read More
Two dance-music architects form one monumental brain and go all-in for deep dub techno of the most mantric and mesmerizing kind. The label, Tresor, counts as a stamp of techno at its most serious and austere, and the cast is formidable: Juan Atkins, from techno's origin story in early-1980s Detroit, and Moritz Von Oswald, part of the Berlin-based sound and movement surrounding his formative act… → Read More