Music

“My booking agent said, ‘I think you’re having a Leonard Cohen moment,’ ” says David Byrne – before hastening to clarify, with a laugh, that the reference was to renewed relevance and popularity, not his impending demise. In March, he’s releasing a strong new album, American Utopia (written over tracks created …

Ratings for the 2018 Grammys slipped over 20 percent from last year’s event, putting Music’s Biggest Night in danger of securing its lowest ratings in modern history. Nielsen Media’s overnight returns showed the 2018 Grammys scoring a 12.7 rating in metered markets, a significant fall from last year’s 16.0; ratings …

In Lindsey Buckingham’s own words as he and his Fleetwood Mac bandmates accepted MusiCares Person(s) of the Year Award, the band was “a group of chemistry.” That chemistry of drama, anger, love, sadness and sense of family has created one of pop’s most enduring musical canons, and as a steady …

Admit it: You thought Mark E. Smith would be the last to go. And in a way, he was the last to go – when the punk legend died on Wednesday, after 40 years leading the U.K. band the Fall, he took most of the world’s bile with him. “There …

Just south of Blackshear, Georgia, down a bumpy dirt road, the Moccasin Creek Off-Road Park spreads across 500 acres of wooded countryside. On a Thursday in late September, RVs, pickup trucks and trailers loaded with all manner of all-terrain vehicles wait to enter the park for the sixth annual Lactember …

Members of Sonic Youth, Negativland and the Flying Lizards have all taken part in a new recording of composer John Cage’s music with pianist Tania Chen. Electronic Music for Piano is a work that Cage wrote in Stockholm in 1964 on hotel letterhead, asking for musicians to play parts of …

The National mark the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration with the visceral video for “Walk It Back,” a song off the band’s 2017 LP Sleep Well Beast. The video manipulates CSPAN broadcasts (“the primary medium for political and commercial ideology”) of several notable political events – like Ronald Reagan’s …

At the time of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan’s death earlier this week, she was set to revisit her band’s poignant 1994 hit, “Zombie,” with a heavy-metal band. Bad Wolves, a new group consisting of former members of DevilDriver, In This Moment and God Forbid, had recorded a version of the …

Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and his band Calpurnia performed Friday night at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade NYC, where the group played a gig of both covers and originals off Calpurnia’s upcoming EP. In this Rolling Stone video, Calpurnia deliver their rendition of Velvet Underground’s “Here She Comes Now,” the White …

“I certainly don’t keep up with hip-hop but I’m trying to now,” says iconic British illustrator and painter Ralph Steadman, best known as the twisted mind behind the dark, grotesque, hilarious, disturbing art that accompanied the early-1970s gonzo journalistic screeds of the late Hunter S. Thompson, including his 1972 novel …