Music

Lollapalooza returned to Grant Park in Chicago once again for a weekend of music, and a lot of sun. Along with the usual packed crowds streaming into downtown, this year saw an uptick in surprise guests (hi, Chance the Rapper), and an easily observed increase in spiked seltzer sales. The …

Logic and Gucci Mane provide a lesson in “drip” in the new video for “Icy,” a cut off Logic’s recently released Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. The video, directed by Colin Tilley, opens with a cartoon Logic receiving a phone call from his manager Marty, informing the rapper he needs …

It’s the day after a Nashville tour stop for Mike and the Moonpies, and the band members, with bloodshot eyes and a hitch in their giddyup, are slowly shuffling into the Red Door Saloon in East Nashville. The Texas group’s tour bus is in the shop getting an alignment, and …

The beleaguered official 50th anniversary tribute concert to Woodstock will be free, if it moves forward. A rep for the festival told the Washington, D.C. radio station WTOP that if it’s able to pull off the supposedly three-day event, still aiming to kick off in a little over two weeks, …

In the two days that veteran photographer David McClister spent with Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real in Nashville, the band headlined Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium for the first time, and opened for the Who at the much larger Bridgestone Arena just down the street. “It was one of …

Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” gets another new remix. For the latest version, BTS‘ RM teams up with Nas for the cleverly named “Seoul Town Road.” On the new remix, which was unveiled on Wednesday around midnight, they reference South Korea’s capital city Seoul, where BTS formed, and the …

Woodstock 50 organizers said they will attempt to relocate the festival from upstate New York to Columbia, Maryland in a last-ditch effort to save the beleaguered event, Bloomberg reported. Organizers told the New York Times that they will attempt to stage the festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion, which is about …

Over 70 items of Madonna memorabilia are currently up for auction, including costumes, demo cassette tapes and, most famously, a handwritten apology letter from Tupac Shakur that was sent to Madge a year before his death. The auction, hosted by Madonna’s former art advisor Darlene Lutz and the auction house …

Prolific rocker Ty Segall released “Ice Plant,” a surreal song based on memories of the musician’s childhood. The track is the third and final single off First Taste, out August 2nd via Drag City. “Ice Plant” features the melodic, intertwining voices of Segall and Freedom Band member Shannon Lay following …

It’s been a while since the Flaming Lips have returned to their classic formula of song-driven alternative psych-rock. King’s Mouth, an elaborate concept LP featuring spoken-word narration from the Clash’s Mick Jones, is, in some senses, a back to basics return to form for the group. There are a few moments …