American Dream for 6/8/09
For the last 25 years, Gorillaz has occupied a rare portion of cultural real estate that few bands or artists have ever been able to own without dissolving into nostalgia or irrelevance.
Robyn performing Jan. 7, 2026, on CBS' "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" (photo: Scott Kowalchyk ©2026 CBS Broadcasting Inc.).
Mumford & Sons and the Strokes will headline the next edtion of the Sea.Hear.Now festival, which will take place Sept. 20-21 on the beach in Asbury Park, N.J.
A day after announcing his return to the live stage while backed by the Roots at their Roots Picnic on May 30 in Philadelphia, JAŸ-Z has revealed even bigger plans.
The cover of the self-titled debut from Jason P. Woodbury & the Nightbird Singing Quartet speaks volumes: It’s modeled on the indelible design of Vintage Contemporaries,
Fairy lights strung across Anjimile Chithambo’s wall cast a warm, pinkish glow across the singer-songwriter’s bedroom. “I know you didn’t mean that gay,” he says when I say I love the lights. “But I deeply feel like a fairy.”
Music from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters and Sinners took top honors at last night’s (March 15) 98th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, with the former’s “Golden” by HUNTR/X winning Best Original Song and the latter’s Ludwig Göransson earning Best Original Score.
George Michael’s 1988 Paris concert in support of his breakthrough solo album Faith will form the backbone of a new film from Mercury Studios, George Michael: The Faith Tour, which will be released in theaters worldwide later this year.
In the early days of 2023, Shabaka Hutchings announced he’d be putting down his saxophone.
Anne Hathaway steps up to the mic as the titular pop star in the upcoming film Mother Mary, the soundtrack for which will feature her singing songs co-written and co-produced by Charli xcx and Jack Antonoff. The first to emerge, “Burial,” can be sampled below.
Fugazi is officially releasing something of a holy grail for ’90s underground music lovers: the pioneering Washington, D.C. band’s long-bootlegged fall 1992 session with late producer Steve Albini for material eventually released the following year on the album In on the Kill Taker.
On an afternoon when Brian Aubert and Nikki Monninger are supposed to be talking with me about Silversun Pickups’ new album Tenterhooks, Aubert can’t help but steer the conversation towards his other love: movies.
Christina Aguilera took the Linda Perry-penned “Beautiful” to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002, and now Perry is revisiting the Grammy-winning song as the lead single of her next solo album, Let It Die Here. The album is out May 8 on Perry’s 670 Records through Kill Rock Stars and is her first solo effort since 1999’s After Hours.
Bon Iver may be on an extended hiatus from live performance, but group leader Justin Vernon is looking back through his concert vault for the first release in a long-percolating new archival series, VOLUMES.
Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers will be back this spring with their fifth album, everyone for ten minutes, which will be available May 22 from Dirty Hit. The lead single, “you and forever” is out now in tandem with an Alex Lockett-directed video starring Antonoff’s wife, actress Margaret Qualley.
Tame Impala will return to North America starting in July for a fresh round of touring with support from Djo and Dominic Fike, per a teaser post on Instagram. So far, only the cities have been revealed, with dates and venues expected to be announced imminently.
Bad Bunny made history yet again as the first Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner to perform entirely in Spanish last night (Feb. 8) at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco, welcoming surprise guests Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin for an homage to the sounds and sights of his native Puerto Rico.
Noah Kahan’s new single has already topped the Spotify U.S. chart within hours of its release, and the Vermont singer/songwriter is aiming for further new heights this summer with his first full stadium tour. Following the April 24 release of The Great Divide (Mercury), Kahan will hit the road beginning June 11 in Orlando, Fla., with support from Gigi Perez.
Hours after they both came up big on the Grammys stage, Post Malone and Jelly Roll have confirmed an extension of their BIG ASS Stadium Tour, which played to more than a million fans and grossed $170 million last summer. The tour will resume May 13 in El Paso, Texas, and has dates on the books through July 28 in Salt Lake City.
Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance this afternoon (Jan. 30) in Minneapolis during a Tom Morello-organized daytime benefit concert for the families of slain protestors Renee Good and Alex Pretti, during which he live debuted his just-released protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” and then dusted off his 1995 track “The Ghost of Tom Joad” for a guitar-solo filled electric version backed by Morello and other musicians.
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Happy Birthday, Dream!