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Pitchfork Watch Phoebe Bridgers and Boygenius Sound Check in New Short Film Bridgers is the latest guest on A24’s Sound Check at Cherry Lane Theater YouTube series 1 week ago

American Songwriter Journey Member Rushed to Hospital After Medical Emergency Just Two Songs Into Concert AUSTIN, TEXAS - MARCH 31: Deen Castronovo of Journey performs in concert during the "Final Frontier Tour" at Moody Center on March 31, 2026 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images) Journey… 1 week ago

Stereogum Deafheaven Release New Surprise EP At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb Last month, Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy mentioned mysterious plans for a new EP. Talking to the Spanish website Binaural, McCoy said the new record would be both "the heaviest" and "the hardest"… 1 week ago

Rolling Stone ‘I Don’t Think Anybody Can Be Prepared to Listen to the Shaggs’: See New Doc Trailer We Are the Shaggs looks at discordant sister group's story and its surprising impact 1 week ago

SPIN A New Exhibit Visualizes the Influence of Music on the Art of Normal Lewis The link between art and music is integral, and in the case of Harlem-bred abstract expressionist painter Norman Lewis, it was foundational. Lewis’s love of jazz in particular was a central inspiratio… 1 week ago

Billboard Earth, Wind & Fire Drummer John Paris Enters Rehab After Hospitalization The update came after the 58-year-old musician was placed in a medically induced coma in August and included news that he lacked health insurance at the time. 1 week ago

American Songwriter Miranda Lambert Wrote This 2017 Song in Tribute to an Early Kenny Chesney Hit NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 08: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Miranda Lambert performs onstage during the 51st annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 8, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by… 1 week ago

SPIN Deep Cut Friday: “Red Shoes by the Drugstore” by Tom Waits Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Tom Waits opened his 1978 album Blue Valentine with a show tune, “Somewh… 1 week ago

Billboard Dolly Parton Makes Posthumous Appearance in Video At Awards Show Honoring Music Teachers: ‘Thank You For Your Passion’ Parton recorded the tribute for the Country Music Association Foundation's Music Teachers of Excellence event before her death at 80 in August. 1 week ago

American Songwriter 3 Multi-Genre Songs That Prove the 1950s Were the Best Decade for Music CHICAGO - CIRCA 1958: Rock and roll musician Chuck Berry poses for a portrait session in circa 1958 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) These songs released in the 1950… 1 week ago

SPIN 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief Name  Bruce Soord, me and from The Pineapple Thief. Best known for  Maybe being the founder of The Pineapple Thief (TPT) way back in 1999. Or maybe as a mixing engineer/producer-songwriter. Or maybe e… 1 week ago

Billboard Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey (and Her Husband), Morgan Wallen, Robyn & Burna Boy to Host ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ In-Game Radio Stations The six in-game stations include Back Country Radio, Cocoteo FM, AfroBank FM, Dirty South Classics, The Chamber 106.6 and Flash FM. 1 week ago

American Songwriter A 19-Year-Old Wrote What Remains One of The Moody Blues’ Biggest Hits English pop group The Moody Blues, group portrait, 1972, (L-R) Mike Pinder, Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas and Graeme Edge. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) One of the biggest hits by T… 1 week ago

American Songwriter 4 Rock Songs From 1978 That Give Me Instant Goosebumps Every Time Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images These rock songs from 1978 always leave me with chill bumps on my arms and legs, no matter how many times I've heard them. The post 4 Rock Songs From 19… 1 week ago

American Songwriter 3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1950s That Sound Completely Different Today Carl Perkins poses for a portrait with his guitar in Memphis in the mid 1950's. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) It's always interesting to see how a song ages. Indeed, these are three on… 1 week ago

American Songwriter Remembering When Tom Petty Hustled Out a New Album Because He Got Sick of His Previous One in 1978 American Rock and Pop musician Tom Petty (1950 - 2017) plays electric guitar as he performs, with his band the Heartbreakers, during the 'Southern Accents' tour at Brendan Byrne Arena (later known as… 1 week ago

American Songwriter Born 29 Years Ago Today in Georgia, Country-Pop’s Favorite “Emo Cowgirl” Who Makes Heartbreak Impossible Not To Sing Along To NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - Megan Moroney poses backstage during the 19th ACM® Honors™ at The Pinnacle on August 19, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for ACM) Confessional… 1 week ago

Billboard Pet Shop Boys Salute Computer Pioneer Alan Turing on ‘A Man From The Future’: Stream It Now More than a decade later, the project has been updated, reworked and rearranged with new electronic elements, new text and fresh orchestrations. 1 week ago

American Songwriter Every Baby Boomer Alive Remembers These 4 Must-Hear Country Ballads From 1967 Los Angeles - 1967: Country Musician Merle Haggard Performs on Stage With a Dog During a 1967 Television Show in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Many a baby boom… 1 week ago