Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic was back in Austin, Texas, on Thursday to celebrate Independence Day. Alison Krauss returned for the first time since 2016, joining Jamey Johnson, Billy Joe Shaver, Steve Earle & the Dukes, and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, who made their Picnic debut. Luke …

Chrissie Hynde slides into a smooth French croon with her version of “Que Reste-t-il De nos Amours?”, the 1942 Chanson song by Charles Trenet. Throughout the breezy track, Hynde sweetly sings over jazzy piano, billowing strings, brushed drums and upright bass. “Que Reste-t-il De nos Amours?” appears on the Pretenders …

In June 1964, a country music fan in Jamaica who regularly listened to Nashville’s 50,000-watt radio station WSM sent a letter to the editor of Billboard, who proclaimed it the first such correspondence they had ever received from someone tuning into the country station from the Caribbean island nation. Yet …

When Bad Bunny and J Balvin first linked up in 2017’s excellent “Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola,” it might have been easy to lose them in the wave of collabs sweeping the Latin charts. But when the two crossed orbits the following year on Cardi B’s bilingual summer jam, …

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is the type of billionaire who will quote long passages from Pink Floyd‘s The Wall to you when you answer the phone. And even if you don’t pick up, he’ll still leave a voicemail parroting the monumental double-album’s whole “collect call to Mrs. Floyd from …

On Monday night, friends of E. Jean Carroll gathered at a small party for her at a Brooklyn brownstone. Someone had baked a heart-shaped pink cake with the word “BRAVE” spelled out on it in red sugar. Carroll, the advice columnist and author — and Trump’s latest sexual assault accuser …

Police officers in Chicago have released body cam footage from the investigation of Jussie Smollett, theEmpireactor accused of staging a hate crime against himself. In one of the tapes released from the nearly 70 hours of footage, Smollett appears to greet police officers with a noose around his neck. In …

Cardi B and husband Offset performed a medley of their two recent singles at the BET Awards. Cardi B took home the award for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist during the ceremony. Before either artist could be seen, the clicking of paparazzi cameras played before the chorus of Cardi B’s single …

Fever Ray, the alias of The Knife‘s Karin Dreijer for her solo project, has announced the release of Live at the Troxy, which was recorded during Dreijer’s March 2018 performance at Troxy in London, England. It will be released on August 2nd via her label Rabid Records and Mute. The …

Lady Gaga has extended both of her Las Vegas residencies, Enigma and Jazz & Piano, into December and beyond with a slate of new dates. Enigma and Jazz & Piano were scheduled to conclude November 8th and 9th, respectively. However, the singer has added seven new dates to the Enigma …