For the first time on the Billboard 200 chart, the top two albums are in Spanish. Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida made history this week with their latest LPs. Moreover, the Mexican-American group has broken even more records for the música mexicana genre.  The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums in the U.S. The post For the First …

Day ‘n’ nite, the lonely stoner had some time to write. Kid Cudi, a figure who has impacted a couple of rap generations, has written his memoir. The evocatively titled book Cudi: A Memoir is coming this fall, and it’s got Cudi telling stories about succeeding in music while dealing with issues of depression and addiction. Cudi also did the …

Perhaps an ancient wizard put a curse on the Brooklyn Mirage, Avant Gardner’s East Williamsburg music venue. Two men were found dead after leaving the venue in 2022, and the space has faced a series of problems in its to reopen after a $10 million renovation. Earlier this month, the reopening show was canceled just hours before it was scheduled …

The members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers aren’t so into drugs and alcohol these days, but frontman Anthony Kiedis apparently still has at least one beverage-related vice: coffee. Now he’s following Green Day’s lead and launching a coffee company of his own called JOLENE with his longtime friend Shane Powers. Live Nation is an equity investor in JOLENE, and …

KISS bassist Gene Simmons is not the type to let a sucker-ass fan go unexploited. For decades, Simmons has figured out innovative, skeezy new ways to make a buck off his band’s music and image — Todd McFarlane KISS toys, a KISS Kasket, a KISS-themed pro wrestler, whatever. For his latest stunt, Simmons is selling life experiences, including the chance …

On Saturday near San Fransisco, Halsey kicked off her For My Last Trick Tour promoting her recent album The Great Impersonator. She sang a few songs from that album live for the first time: “Darwinism,” “Arsonist,” “Only Living Girl In LA,” and “Alice Of The Upper Class.” They’re also apparently following Taylor Swift’s lead and doing a different “surprise song” …

The Lower Manhattan nightclub CBGB, one of the more important venues in the history of punk rock, has been defunct for years. But the CBGB name carries weight, and that name has once again been affixed to a music festival.

Cinematic icon Nicolas Cage and musical icon Nick Cave don’t look much like each other, and they have very, very different voices. But they’ve got very similar names, and they’re both intense, dark-haired white guys in their sixties, so people apparently get them constantly confused with one another. Last week, Nic Cage claimed that people mistake him for Nick Cave …

It means something for Alan Sparhawk to have a song called “Not Broken.” In 2022, Sparhawk lost his wife and Low bandmate Mimi Parker to cancer, and that’s the sort of thing that would break most of us. Sparhawk has taken on the heavy, beautiful task of honoring Parker’s legacy in public, through art. Last year, Sparhawk released his solo …

Wow, that headline really calls out for clarification, doesn’t it? On Saturday night, the Armed played new music with the band Prostitute, the Michigan noise-rockers who appeared in our Band To Watch column earlier this year. The Armed did not hire a sex worker and then perform new music with them. That would’ve been a weird thing to do. The …