A man who disappeared on the final day of Chicago’s Riot Fest has died, reportedly due to injuries sustained at the festival. Stephen Shult, 58, was at the festival with friends and family who said they lost track of him on Sept. 22, after he’d left his group to get closer to Slayer’s performance. Shult was then located at a …

In a few short weeks, the Cure will release their long-anticipated new album Songs Of A Lost World, their first in 16 years. The band has already shared the epic seven-minute opening track “Alone,” which absolutely fucking rules. Last week, they shared a short clip of the new track “Endsong.” Now, they’ve dropped a brief snippet of “A Fragile Thing,” …

Donald Glover put his Childish Gambino tour on hold a month ago due to an unspecified health crisis. Now he has gone ahead and cancelled those dates. As he explains in a message on Twitter, it’s going to take him a while to heal up from whatever ailment he suffered:

These days, everyone is covering Chappell Roan. I’m talking about Kelly Clarkson and Miranda Lambert, Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber, Vampire Weekend, MUNA, the Kidz Bop Kids — that’s just the past week and a half. Chappell Roan, meanwhile, is covering motherfucking Heart. Salute.

Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips’ musical sequel to his divisive 2019 hit Joker, is out today. It once again stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker, and this time Lady Gaga is on board as his Harleen “Lee” Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn. A week ago Gaga released the companion album Harlequin, a collection of showtunes and standards …

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 …