Music

Brian Bumbery, publicist for major artists like Metallica, Madonna, Chris Cornell and Green Day, will leave his own public relations firm, BB Gun Press in September to accept the position as Director at Apple Music Publicity, Variety reports. The company will continue under the helm of Luke Burland, who worked …

Jason Isbell‘s “Last of My Kind” receives a gorgeous, extended treatment as the latest track to be revealed from the Alabama singer-songwriter’s upcoming LP with the 400 Unit, Live From the Ryman. Recorded last October during a six-night stand at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, “Last of My …

Few sounds in popular music are as instantly familiar and welcoming as that of Willie Nelson‘s guitar. His offbeat picking style is the first thing one can hear on Nelson’s new recording of “Old Friends” with Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard, to be featured on the upcoming Roger Miller tribute …

On a humid summer afternoon in New Jersey, several thousand people are screaming their hearts out in a language they don’t speak. American devotees of Korean pop music have taken over Newark’s Prudential Center for the weekend; in the parking lot, the crowd sings along to a series of Korean-pop …

Nicki Minaj‘s Queen andTravis Scott‘s Astroworldwere projected to be in a close race for Number One album, but it didn’t pan out that way. Scott’s albumbeat Minaj’s by 20,000 album-equivalent units, which, in chart-nerd parlance is not exactly “close.” And Minaj did not take kindly to the numbers. “I put …

Stevie Wonder remembered his longtime friend Aretha Franklin in an interview with CBS This Morning Friday, a day after the legendary singer’s death at the age of 76. Wonder visited Franklin’s Detroit home Tuesday following reports that the Queen of Soul was “gravely ill.” “She wasn’t able to speak back, …

With drummer OJ Jackson keeping time on a plastic bucket and bass player J. Kott plucking away on an acoustic four-string, Brent Cobb and his band lay down a filthy rhythm in a backstage warm-up session, performing the cautionary “.30-06” off Cobb’s terrific new album Providence Canyon. Filmed prior to …

Anyone missing Dillinger Escape Plan after they disconnected their ping-ponging, ill-angled math machine hasn’t needed too much time to catch their breath. Michigan weirdos the Armed and Pittsburgh bludgeoneers Code Orange have gotten critical accolades for their try-anything approaches to art-hardcore. If you’re into tricky time-signatures, there’s new records that …

An all-star tribute concert to ailing soul icon Aretha Franklin is being planned to take place in New York City this fall. Record exec Clive Davis, who signed Franklin to his Arista Records in 1980, is leading the charge on the show, which Billboard claims could be titled “Clive Davis …

Cher has debuted “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight),” the first single off her forth ABBA cover albumDancing Queen.She teased her clubby version in a video trailer for the album on Twitter on Wednesday. Produced by her longtime collaborator Mark Taylor — who was behind her massive hit “Believe” …