Music

I don’t actually remember the first time I met Riley Gale, late vocalist of the exceedingly heavy thrash-metal band Power Trip, but I remember the second. As with so many other stories about meeting Riley, it was outside of a punk show, at a Toronto festival called Not Dead Yet. …

Ahead of the release of Toots and the Maytals’ new album on Friday, Toots Hibbert has dropped the buoyant single “Just Brutal.” “We need more love in our hearts/Remember what the preacher said,” Hibbert sings over a chaotic frenzy of a horn section and background singers before ripping into the …

Kanye West’s troubled and often disarrayed presidential campaign hit a series of setbacks this week as the rapper’s Birthday Party failed to qualify for the ballot in West Virginia and Wisconsin and, more importantly, missed a crucial Federal Election Commission deadline. The West Virginia Secretary of State’s office revealed Friday …

Joel Crouse was onstage at Gillette Stadium in 2013 singing his debut country single “If You Want Some” while 55,000-plus Taylor Swift fans found their way to their seats. It was a home-state gig for Crouse, a native of Holland, Massachusetts, and the then-21-year-old was wrapping up his leg of …

Bully‘s Alicia Bognanno credits the creation of her new record, Sugeregg, in part to finding proper treatment for her bipolar II disorder. “Being able to finally navigate that opened the door for me to write about it,” she said in a release about the album, which deftly moves from moshpit …

John Prine faced an uncertain future as he prepared to graduate high school in the mid-1960s. Growing up in Maywood, Illinois, Prine quietly considered himself a songwriter, but he’d yet to play his songs for anyone. He was a skilled gymnast, which he thought might lead to college and a …

Metallica made an appearance on The Howard Stern Show Wednesday to play three songs, two of which come off Metallica, a.k.a. the “Black Album.” That record — which has become the best-selling album of the past three decades — came out 29 years ago on August 12th. For the appearance, …

If you use Neil Young‘s Archives website, you may need to make a new login. The artist is spending $20,000 to remove Facebook and Google logins from the site, according to Variety. “Facebook knowingly allows untruths and lies in its political ads to circulate on the platform, while bots sow …

September 14th, 1980 was a landmark day in “Weird Al” Yankovic history. Not only was it the day the world first heard his Queen parody “Another One Rides the Bus” when he debuted it on the Dr. Demento Radio Show, but it was also the day he first came into …

Lady Gaga has announced the launch of her new show, Gaga Radio, which will be available via Apple Music on Friday. The dance music-focused show will feature DJs, producers and others who have inspired the pop star and her Chromatica album. “The last few weeks I’ve been figuring out different …