Music

Kacey Musgraves visited the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, performing “Happy and Sad,” from the CMA-nominated LP, Golden Hour. A ballad of romantic promise tinged with melancholy, the gauzy tune, which Musgraves wrote with her Golden Hour co-producers, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, seems a perfect fit for the changing …

Charlie Daniels will release his first album of new material since 2016’s Night Hawk with Beau Weevils — Songs in the Key of E. Due October 26th, the LP pairs Daniels with producer and musician James Stroud, who plays drums on the 10-song set. “The whole thing started one day …

St. Vincent has revealed a third rendition of her Masseduction track “Slow Disco.” The “new” track is titled “Slow Slow Disco” and features delicate piano keys accenting St. Vincent’s piercing vocals. The stripped-down version is a contrast to the upbeat nature of Masseduction. Clark recently performed the same arrangement at …

Marsha Ambrosius, an R&B singer’s R&B singer, is responsible for co-writing one of pop’s most intoxicating odes to infatuation. That would be Michael Jackson‘s “Butterflies,” perhaps the star’s finest post-Bad single, where his inimitable vocal quavers slam home all the tingly, head-over-heels couplets. So it’s no surprise that Ambrosius excels …

Sharon Osbourne has penned a scathing open letter to Philip Anschutz, founder of concert promoter AEG, after her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, dropped his antitrust lawsuit against the company. The filing claimed that AEG had a requirement that if Ozzy were to play the O2 Arena in London, that he must …

An exhibit dedicated to the life and legacy of Aretha Franklin will open this week at a Detroit museum. The estate-approved “Think: A Tribute to the Queen of Soul” arrives at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History this Tuesday and will exhibit until January 21st, 2019. “This …

Brockhampton’s iridescence will be scrutinized, dissected and debated. It’s what happens when you have fans that pore over every line and sonic decision, and the “boyband” has been worth pouring time into since they burst onto the scene last year. Their fourth album, which came out on Friday, is their …

Musicians treasure creative freedom, and in interviews, it’s not uncommon for them to voice a warning: “Don’t put my art in a box.” But MHD, the platinum-selling French rapper of Senegalese and Guinean descent, knows that a box can be valuable, as long as it’s packaged nicely and slapped with …

Fresh off releasing her acclaimed new album Room 25, Chicago rapper Noname has announced a 2019 tour in support of her latest LP. Noname, an Artist You Need to Know and one of the best rappers alive, will tour throughout the month of January, kicking off the trek on January …

The high-flying hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz released “Pistol On My Side,” a boisterous collaboration with Lil Wayne, on Friday. The track will appear on Swizz Beatz’s upcoming solo album, Poison,his first full-length since 2007. “Pistol on My Side” opens with an ostentatious orchestral passage, as if it’s the theme to …