“Spirit 2.0” Sampha is a singer, songwriter and producer from London. His first album, Process, won the Mercury Prize in 2017. He’s collaborated with artists like the XX, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Solange. If you saw the Song Exploder Netflix show, Sampha was in the Alicia Keys episode, for the song they did together as […]
Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department is, unsurprisingly, breaking all sorts of records. To start, Swift’s 11th full-length debuts top the Billboard 200 with the second biggest opening week in recorded history. In do so, she has also tied JAY-Z for the most No. 1 albums by a solo artist with 14. Only […]
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Sympathizer Episode 3, “Love It or Leave It.”] The most buzzy aspect of HBO’s new drama The Sympathizer — Robert Downey Jr. playing a series of different characters — hits its peak in Episode 3, “Love It or Leave It.” And even cast member Sandra Oh had […]
Country star Eric Church has responded to criticism he received for putting on an unconventional, polarizing headlining set at the Stagecoach Music Festival. Taking the festival’s main stage for its closing slot on Friday night, Church transformed Stagecoach into a literal church of sorts, projecting dramatic stained-glass art behind him and enlisting a gospel choir […]
“Escapism” (feat. 070 Shake) Raye is a singer, songwriter and producer from London. Besides being an artist in her own right, she’s also been a songwriter for other artists since she was a teenager. She’s co-written songs for Beyoncé, Charli XCX, and Ellie Goulding. In 2023, she released her debut album, My 21st Century Blues. […]
Taylor Swift’s new LP, The Tortured Poets Department, has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it her 14th studio album reach the peak. The album achieved enormous first-week sales, debuting with 2.61 million equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 25, as Billboard reports. Of that number, […]
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has said that he’s open to the idea of a Pink Floyd hologram show, à la ABBA Voyage, but only under a “series of very, very difficult and onerous conditions.” The comments came in a new interview with Uncut, ahead of Gilmour’s first new album in nearly a decade, Luck and […]
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox take on blink-182’s “Dammit” in the latest installment of their “Sunday Lunch” series, as the married couple deliver an “elderly edition” of the coming-of-age punk anthem. The 77-year-old King Crimson guitarist and the 65-year-old new wave singer have proven to be ever-youthful since launching their “Sunday Lunch” YouTube series in […]
Post Malone performed a set of country music covers at Stagecoach Music Festival on Saturday night, including songs by Tyler Childers, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Vince Gill, and Randy Travis. Over the course of the 11-song set, Posty was also joined by a number of special guests, including Dwight Yoakam, Brad Paisley, and Sara Evans. […]
“The Teacher” For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with Dave Grohl. We talked about the Foo Fighters song “The Teacher,” which is an epic, 10-minute long song. Dave told me it’s the most important piece of music he’s ever written, […]
