Music Features

Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis was just three years old when the original Woodstock festival took place, but he watched the film version obsessively as a kid and it played a huge role in shaping him as an artist. As he prepares for another leg of Dinosaur Jr.’s ongoing tour …

First-round Grammy voting is currently underway, and running through October 10th. For our2020 Grammy preview, we asked a series of likely contenders to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and break down the albums and singles that could earn them a statue come …

Jimmy Spicer, a hip-hop pioneer with a flare for storytelling and the endurance to rap over one side of a 12-inch record, died last Friday of lung and brain cancer in a Brooklyn hospital at the age of 61. His 14-minute debut single, “The Adventures of Super Rhyme (Rap),” came …

This past June, Clive Davis was preparing to embark on his annual lengthy European vacation, but he first had to break some startling news: “We’re coming out with a new record of Whitney on Friday,” he said. During the sessions for her 1990 album I’m Your Baby Tonight, Houston had …

It’s been 10 years since Linda Ronstadt wrapped up her career as a performer with a show at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, but she still vividly remembers how she felt that night. “I saw every concert I ever sang,” she says on the phone from San Francisco, …

H arry Styles isn’t exactly dressed down for lunch. He’s got a white floppy hat that Diana Ross might have won from Elton in a poker game at Cher’s mansion circa 1974, plus Gucci shades, a cashmere sweater, and blue denim bell-bottoms. His nail polish is pink and mint green. …

When surfing launches as an Olympic sport in Tokyo next summer, don’t be surprised if Conner Coffin is among those going for the gold. Mastering his style in the point breaks of his home area of Santa Barbara, California, Coffin has picked up where local surf legends like Bobby Martinez …

& ldquo;Hey, Billie?” says Billie Eilish’s mom, standing in the kitchen of their Los Angeles home. “Are you going to clean your room?” “Yeah,” says Eilish, 17, stretching her reply into two no-duh syllables. Even from the couch, her eye roll is audible. Her mom turns to me. “Can she …

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 …