Lionel Richie, Prince and a grumpy Bob Dylan: The untold story behind ‘We Are the World’
As he took in a recent screening of a new documentary on the making of “We Are the World,” Lionel Richie found himself — even now, four decades after the...
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Pink on Tina Turner, Jann Wenner and her ‘desperate need for connection’
Pink is on the phone between tour dates for her Summer Carnival tour, which visited San Diego on Oct. 3, when she fielded a question about whether she'd ever make...
Rick Froberg, singer for influential San Diego indie-rock band Drive Like Jehu, dies at 55
Rick Froberg, the singer, guitarist and visual artist best known for taking the knotty, overdriven sound of math rock into the mainstream (or close to it) with his influential San...
The 40 best songs of 2023 so far (with playlist!)
As we approach the halfway mark of 2023, a few things have become clear: Regional Mexican music is having a moment, Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" will never go away and...
Coachella 2023: Bad Bunny throws a party with a conscience, and the best of the rest of Day 1
Welcome to live coverage of Day 1 of the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.Friday's headliner is the Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, the first Spanish-language artist to top...
Reunited Blink-182 added to Coachella 2023 lineup
Blink-182 is coming to Coachella.The influential Poway-born pop-punk trio will perform Friday evening in the festival’s Sahara tent — its first concert since 2014 with its classic lineup of singer-guitarist...
Grammys, tienes un trabajo el domingo: Dale a Beyonce el album del ano
Las matemáticas son claras, así que empecemos por ahí.Si Beyoncé se lleva a casa al menos cuatro premios durante la 65ª entrega de los premios Grammy del domingo, la cantante,...
Omar Apollo on Catholic guilt, body image and crying after concerts
Omar Apollo makes dreamy bilingual soul music about his life as a gay man, as a son of Mexican immigrants and as a kid who grew up in small-town Indiana...
What we learned from the first weekend of Coachella 2022
Coachella’s first weekend is in the books.The desert mega-festival returned to Indio’s sprawling Empire Polo Club on Friday for the first time since 2019, putting dozens of acts — including...
What do 8-year-olds and Nancy Pelosi have in common? Their favorite pop star is Lin-Manuel Miranda
Precisely one year after “Drivers License” propelled Olivia Rodrigo to instant superstardom, another denizen of Disney’s creative-industrial complex is taking over pop music.But this time it’s not a young woman...
Full lineup announced for Coachella 2022; Harry Styles, Kanye West and Billie Eilish to headline
Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and the artist formerly known as Kanye West will headline this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which after multiple cancellations due to the COVID-19...
Como Olivia Rodrigo paso de princesa Disney a reina del pop: ‘Siempre me he considerado una compositora’
Por regla general Olivia Rodrigo no lee los comentarios."En ocasiones ves una cosa y luego estás pensando en ella todo el día", dice la cantante y compositora de 18 años...
The 100 best songs of 2021
As normal came back into view in 2021 — then seemed to slip away again — great songs arrived from places we could predict and places we never thought to...
How much Beatles is too much? Our experts gorge on the new docies ‘Get Back’
Paul McCartney sits in a chair, bass guitar propped on his knees, and plucks out a riff — nothing fancy, not yet, though he can tell he might be onto...
As Grammy voting begins, Gen Z acts are favorites. But could a 95-year-old take the top prize?
You can almost picture it: Tony Bennett, beaming and crinkly-eyed at age 95, shuffling slowly to the podium with help from Lady Gaga as the in-house band strikes up one...
Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Snoop Dogg to perform at Super Bowl LVI halftime
A five-member hip-hop supergroup will perform during the halftime show at Super Bowl LVI next year.Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will forces for...
Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Snoop Dogg to perform at Super Bowl LVI halftime
A five-member hip-hop supergroup will perform during the halftime show at Super Bowl LVI next year.Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will forces for...
After weeks of delays, Kanye West releases ‘Donda,’ featuring Marilyn Manson, DaBaby and Jay-Z
Maybe he always planned to release it on a Sunday morning.Kanye West’s new album, “Donda,” finally appeared on streaming services early Sunday, days after a third public listening event for...
After weeks of delays, Kanye West releases ‘Donda,’ featuring Marilyn Manson, DaBaby and Jay-Z
Maybe he always planned to release it on a Sunday morning.Kanye West’s new album, “Donda,” finally appeared on streaming services early Sunday, days after a third public listening event for...
13 instant takeaways from Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ livestream
Kanye West premiered his new album, “Donda,” on Thursday night in a typically lavish event held at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium and livestreamed on Apple Music. The 44-year-old rapper-producer-entrepreneur’s 10th solo...
Los Grammy eliminan los comites secretos de nominaciones a raiz del polemico desaire a The Weeknd
Cuando la Academia de la Grabación anunció, el viernes, que acabaría con los comités secretos y altamente polémicos que dan forma a las nominaciones para los premios Grammy anuales, muchos...
Lady Gaga goes full diva for moving national anthem at Biden inauguration: Watch
Lady Gaga brought a welcome — and moving — splash of razzmatazz to Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration when she performed the national anthem at his presidential swearing-in on Wednesday morning.Wearing...
MF Doom, masked and masterful rap artist, dies at 49
MF Doom, the cerebral and willfully mysterious rapper and producer beloved by hip-hop connoisseurs for the complex rhymes he delivered from behind a metallic mask, has died. He was 49.His...
The Weeknd calls Grammys ‘corrupt’ after receiving no nominations
The Weeknd is not accepting his Grammys shutout without a fight.Hours after the Recording Academy announced the nominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards — and revealed that the Canadian...
David Byrne reveals ‘how the trick is done’ in HBO’s ‘American Utopia’
In at least one way, David Byrne was well prepared for quarantine.From last October to this past February, the former Talking Heads frontman performed six nights a week on Broadway...
Blackpink documentary offers a surprisingly intimate look behind the K-pop curtain
Blackpink’s debut album hasn’t even been out for two weeks, and already the of this K-pop girl group have the end in mind.In fact, Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé and Lisa...
Mac Davis, hit songwriter for Elvis Presley and ’70s solo star, dies at 78
Mac Davis, the singer, songwriter and actor known for recording a string of easygoing country hits in the 1970s and ’80s and for the tunes he wrote for Elvis Presley,...
J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Ozuna lead nominations for 2020 Latin Grammy Awards
J. Balvin, Bad Bunny and Ozuna lead the nominations for the 21st Latin Grammy Awards, which were announced Tuesday morning by the Latin Recording Academy.Colombian-born Balvin, with 13 nods, and...
The best, worst and weirdest moments from a very bizarre 2020 VMAs
It wasn’t always easy to tell what was live and what had been pre-recorded — or what was real and what was CGI — at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.Originally...
The best, worst and weirdest moments from a very bizarre 2020 VMAs
It wasn’t always easy to tell what was live and what had been pre-recorded — or what was real and what was CGI — at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.Originally...
The secret weapon behind ‘I May Destroy You’s’ greatness? The coolest music on TV
The first time Ciara Elwis read the script for “I May Destroy You” — the rapturously received HBO series about a young London woman attempting to piece together the murky...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’: All 16 songs, ranked
According to Taylor Swift’s record label, her new album, “Folklore” — recorded in secrecy in quarantine and released Friday with only a few hours’ warning — sold more than 1.3...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’: All 16 songs, ranked
According to Taylor Swift’s record label, her new album, “Folklore” — recorded in secrecy in quarantine and released Friday with only a few hours’ warning — sold more than 1.3...
Country trio Lady Antebellum changes its name: ‘We are regretful and embarrassed’
Lady Antebellum is now Lady A.The popular country trio announced Thursday morning that it is dropping “Antebellum” — a word widely understood to refer to the period before the Civil...
Andre Harrell’s radical, genius idea: Hip-hop and R&B belonged together
The look was thoroughly modern: two handsome young men, one shirtless under a backward baseball cap, the other wearing a green leather vest and shades. Yet when K-Ci and JoJo...
Adam Schlesinger, co-founder of Fountains of Wayne, dies from COVID-19 complications at 52
Adam Schlesinger, whose slyly intellectual rock band Fountains of Wayne made him a cult favorite of pop connoisseurs and whose musical expertise led to behind-the-scenes songwriting work in film and...
On ‘3.15.20,’ Childish Gambino is the anxious, freaked-out, no-chill rock star we need right now
What’s Donald Glover worried about right now? Well, what do you got?On his fourth studio album as Childish Gambino, the singer-rapper-songwriter-producer-comedian-actor — count on the guy for pretty much everything...
Whitney Houston’s hologram revue sounds great, looks lifelike and is still super creepy
In a darkened warehouse in North Hollywood, Whitney Houston stood before a small audience, dressed in a fringed orange body suit, and told off an unfaithful lover in her lithe...
Huey Lewis on his struggle with hearing loss: ‘I thought I might as well kill myself’
Huey Lewis re his first encounter with the sound that would help make him one of the biggest pop stars of the 1980s.Already in his early 30s, with a flop...
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira star in hip-shaking, pole-dancing, history-making Super Bowl halftime show
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira fused old-school razzle-dazzle with an of-the-moment sense of Latin American pride as the historic halftime performers during Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in...
Selena Gomez has 165 million Instagram followers. Now she has her first great pop album
Call this one “Living Documented.”Three months after the premiere of “Living Undocumented” — an acclaimed reality series about undocumented immigrants that she helped shepherd to Netflix — Selena Gomez has...
Justin Bieber regresa con ‘Yummy’, una oda al (sexo con) su nueva esposa
"Estoy eufórico de que seas mi señora".Eso es lo que Justin Bieber nos cuenta, bueno, le cuenta a su nueva esposa, en su tan esperado regreso, Yummy, que llegó a...
Justin Bieber returns with ‘Yummy,’ an ode to (sex with) his new wife
“I’m elated that you are my lady.”That’s what Justin Bieber tells us — well, tells his new wife — in his long-awaited comeback single, “Yummy,” which hit streaming services Thursday...
La estrella del hip-hop Juice Wrld – un talento natural, otra muerte no natural
Hace menos de un mes, Juice Wrld subió al escenario en un estacionamiento del estadio de los Dodgers y presentó su canción "Legends" ante un público de decenas de miles...
BTS fans take to Twitter, upset by Grammy nominations snub
Fans of BTS had some feelings about the Grammy nominations announced Wednesday morning.Reacting to news that the K-pop boy band had been overlooked in all categories by the Recording Academy...
Drake gets booed in L.A., cuts short surprise headline set at Camp Flog Gnaw
Drake was the mystery headliner at Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival on Sunday night. But the superstar rapper’s lukewarm reception led him to cut his surprise set shorter...
How an upstart Latin music fest is reviving a once-glamorous Baja beach town
ROSARITO, Mexico — The organizers of this weekend’s Baja Beach Fest in Rosarito, Mexico, had a clear goal in mind for their second annual event: booking Bad Bunny and Ozuna — two...
Review: Ariana Grande at Coachella was not the pop star we needed
Oh no. Does this mean we’re in for a few years of washed-up guitar bands?When Coachella announced in January that it had booked Ariana Grande as one of its headliners,...
Review: Ariana Grande at Coachella was not the pop star we needed
Oh no. Does this mean we’re in for a few years of washed-up guitar bands?When Coachella announced in January that it had booked Ariana Grande as one of its headliners,...
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are so good at the Oscars that they need to go on tour
It’s almost a shame that Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” won the Academy Award for original song Sunday night.Oh, it deserved the Oscar, all right: A pitch-perfect power ballad with just the...
Review: Ariana Grande’s ‘Thank U, Next’ swagger upstages Grammys drama
You don’t have to listen to Ariana Grande’s new album more than once or twice before you start wondering if she ever intended to perform on this weekend’s Grammy Awards.After...
Review: Nirvana reunited at Dave Grohl’s Cal Jam. The result was complicated
Rock ’n’ roll history came to life Saturday night when Dave Grohl resurrected his band Nirvana as the grand finale to the second-annual Cal Jam festival.From his seat behind the...
Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul and mastered the viral video, just by being Aretha
Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer, a pioneering arranger and producer and, not least, an important figure in the fight for civil rights.She was also — stay with me here...
What started out as Kanye West’s return to Twitter has become far stranger and more unsettling
“It shows what I would refer to as disregulated thought.”“The things that he’s saying are irresponsible, and they’re ignorant.”“I’ve seen where he has said on multiple occasions that he doesn’t...
How Beyonce changed Coachella’s temperature
Reporting from Indio — So much for the “white people stage.”That’s how Vince Staples, the deeply skeptical Long Beach rapper, referred to the main stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts...
Beyonce’s Coachella performance was incredible – and she knew it
Look, there’s really no other way to say it: Beyoncé’s headlining performance Saturday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was one of the most impressive things I’ve...
Beyonce’s Coachella performance was incredible – and she knew it
Look, there’s really no other way to say it: Beyoncé’s headlining performance Saturday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was one of the most impressive things I’ve...
Fleetwood Mac was the only act worth seeing at its grim Grammy weekend MusiCares tribute
Reporting from New York — Leave it to Fleetwood Mac to steal the show at its own tribute concert.Performing last to close Friday night’s MusiCares Person of the Year benefit, the annual...
Eminem hits clunker after clunker on the well-intentioned ‘Revival’
Nobody has ever accused Eminem of having his heart in the right place.For years, listening to hip-hop’s most problematic giant has meant looking past (or even justifying) the dubious moral...
Why losing Tom Petty feels like losing a piece of ourselves
If you sing karaoke, you’ve probably performed “American Girl.” If you play guitar, you’ve likely strummed “Learning to Fly.”And if you’ve driven a car while celebrating some personal achievement or...
Who is the Russian pop star linked to Donald Trump Jr.? His bland music offers few clues
Toby Keith. Lee Greenwood. The Rolling Stones.In the eight months since he was elected president, Donald Trump has demonstrated some clear musical favorites. When the history of his istration is...
The biggest fan at the Grammy Awards? The show’s host, James Corden
If you criticize a musician in front of James Corden, be prepared for him to push back.On a recent morning in his office at CBS Television City, the host of...
Shadow Morton, ’60s pop wizard, reportedly dead at 71
Shadow Morton, the songwriter and producer behind such 1960s pop classics as " (Walking in the Sand)" and "Leader of the Pack" -- both recorded by the Shangri-Las -- is...