This year, the Virginia singer Tommy Richman surged into the spotlight out of nowhere by falsetto-crooning over big, 808-heavy old-school beats. Richman’s singles “Million Dollar Baby” and “Devil Is A Lie” have met with resistance, but both were hits on streaming and rap radio. (Both are also really good songs, at least according to me.) Last week, Richman released his …

Less than two months ago, on the eve of her Short N’ Sweet album release, Sabrina Carpenter was a guest on The Tonight Show. Back then, she sat for an interview with Jimmy Fallon and sang “Please Please Please,” her first #1 hit. Thursday she was already back at 30 Rock for another go-round.

Pink Floyd just sold their catalog and name/likeness rights to Sony for several Scrooge McDuck vaults worth of money, which theoretically ends the dispute between David Gilmour and Roger Waters about the liner notes in the long-delayed Animals reissue. The sale does not, however, resolve the longstanding conflict between the former bandmates. Gilmour, who is promoting the new solo album …

After first receiving the honor in 2006 as a member of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne is being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a solo artist this year. The celebration will include a bunch of his friends, though, with Billy Idol, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan, and country star Jelly Roll among those performing a tribute to …

El traficante de canciones Lenier Mesa está de estreno con un nuevo álbum que lleva por título Blanco y Negro, un proyecto predominantemente colaborativo. El disco “con mucho concepto” salió a la luz el 27 de septiembre junto al videoclip de “La Diferente”, dirigido por Adrian Sanchez Avila, un junte explosivo con Gente de Zona. En esta pieza los intérpretes …

The great Kris Kristofferson died Sunday, and tributes continue to pour in. The latest comes from Eric Church, Kristofferson’s fellow country singer-songwriter.

Exactly 11 months ago, surviving Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr released “Now And Then,” billed as the band’s final song. “Now And Then,” which originated as a 1979 demo by John Lennon and was fleshed out by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr while compiling The Beatles Anthology in the mid-’90s, is said to be the last …

The new movie Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters this weekend, and you cannot accuse its star Lady Gaga of sleeping on her promotional duties. Gaga plays Harley Quinn in the film, and she just released Harlequin, her companion-piece album. It’s mostly jazz-hands theater-kid standards, songs that Lady Gaga would presumably want to record anyway. But the LP has …

UK post-punk originators Gang Of Four have broken up and reunited many times over the years, and now they’re about to hang it up again. In the band’s last incarnation, guitarist Andy Gill was the only remaining original member in Gang Of Four, and that version of the band released a few albums before Gill passed away in 2020. Now, …

Last month, the reunited Swedish punk greats Refused had a big announcement to make: They’re about to break up for a second time, but only after one last big tour. They unveiled the dates from their farewell North American run with Quicksand, and they also unveiled the tracklist for a new tribute album that’s dedicated to their 1998 classic The …