Music

If you’re looking for indie-pop thrills this quarantined fall, you won’t find many better than the ones onMy Favorite Shrine, the debut EP from New York City trio Ribbon Stage. Jamming five songs into eight minutes — the longest, “Personal Hell,” maxes out at a lean 2:21 — the EP …

It’s a Tuesday in the Catskills, and Patton Magee and his bandmates in the Nude Party are making preparations for a weekly tradition: “Tiki Tuesday.” The garage-rock band, their producer Oakley Munson, and a few friends and girlfriends who’ve been quarantining with the group in their upstate New York home …

Stevie Nicks has released the powerful rock ballad “Show Them the Way.” This is Nicks’ first new solo song since releasing her 2014 LP24 Karat Gold. Greg Kurstin produced the anthemic new track. Two official versions have been released: an acoustic, piano-only take and a full-band recording that features Dave …

Angel Olsen, Brittany Howard, Kathleen Hanna and Phoebe Bridgers are among the artists performing during Panache’s upcoming Village of Love Planned Parenthood benefit concert. In partnership with Like Management, the virtual event takes place on October 25th via Live.ly, where tickets are available. The lineup also includes Deep Sea Diver, …

Although it’s sometimes forgotten, Kiss — and the band’s Gene Simmons in particular — played a key role in the early days of Van Halen. After seeing the then-unsigned band at an Los Angeles club in 1977, Simmons brought Van Halen to New York and produced their first demo. A …

South Korean girl group Blackpink are getting their very own Netflix documentary, Blackpink: Light Up the Sky, which dropped its first trailer on Tuesday. The film premieres October 14th on the streaming platform. Directed by Caroline Suh, who also directed the Netflix docuseriesSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and produced by Cara …

Cody Johnson and Reba McEntire team up for the new collaboration “Dear Rodeo,” a song that nods to both of the country singers’ pasts: Johnson was a bull rider, McEntire a barrel-racer. Written by Cody Johnson and Dan Couch (Kip Moore’s “Hey Pretty Girl”), the ballad explores the pull of …

Earlier this week, we shared the ballot that Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz submitted for the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums list. It was, to put a mildly, a very eclectic list that included Marching Band Favorites by the Tremont High School Drum Line, Boogaloo in Brooklyn by Juan Epstein, and …

Helen Reddy, the Australian singer whose early Seventies song “I Am Woman” has served as an empowering feminist anthem for several generations, died Tuesday at age 78. Her children, Traci Donat and Jordan Sommers, confirmed the news via her official Facebook page. “It is with deep sadness that we announce …

Like many of Prince‘s former collaborators, Levi Seacer, Jr. still refers to his old boss in the present tense. Seacer joinedPrince’s post-Revolution touring band on bass not long before the release of 1987’s Sign O’ the Times, and stuck around as the band morphed into the New Power Generation, switching …