Music

Mt. Westmore — the rap supergroup featuring Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Too $hort and E-40 — made their live debut Saturday during the Triller Fight Club event at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The California rap legends — Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg from Los Angeles area, Too $hort and E-40 from …

Rubén Blades, the singer-songwriter behind some of the greatest salsa of all time, attempts a bold merger on his latest album, Salswing!, moving between the strutting, brassy sheen of swing and the driving, blasting, hyperkinetic salsa that made him a legend. In the liner notes accompanying the album, which Blades …

Jayda G adds a fresh sheen to the classic sounds of Nineties Basement Boys productions — think Ann Nesby and Sublevel — on “All I Need,” a springy collaboration with James Ford. The single follows last year’s “Both of Us,” a piano-house juggernaut that would have surely been playing on …

Gojira have released “Into the Storm,” the fourth single from their upcoming albumFortitude. The Grammy-nominated band will release their latest LP on April 30th via Roadrunner Records. “This song is infused with the concept of civil disobedience,” Gojira vocalist and guitarist Joe Duplantier said. “Acting accordingly with our deepest wisdom …

Blue Note Records has released a new track from late Afrobeat legend Tony Allen, “Stumbling Down,” featuring Zambian rapper Sampa the Great. The track will appear on the upcoming posthumous Allen record, There Is No End, out April 30th. “Stumbling Down” boasts a dense, bass-heavy groove that’s cut through with …

The Mick Fleetwood & Friends tribute concert to Peter Green at London’s Palladium on February 20th, 2020 was packed with incredible performances from the likes of Pete Townshend, Noel Gallagher, Steven Tyler, Kirk Hammett, Billy Gibbons, and Christine McVie. But one of the best performances came near the very end …

A prayer vigil for DMX will take place outside White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, where the rapper remains on life support. The vigil will take place Monday, April 5th, and will start at 5 p.m. ET. The Ruff Ryders to the Rescue Foundation will host the vigil, …

Bruce Springsteen discusses the origins of “Born in the U.S.A.” and how it was misconstrued as an overtly patriotic song in a clip from the final episode of his podcast with Barack Obama, Renegades: Born in the USA. In the clip, Springsteen says he started working on “Born in the …

Lorde and Marlon Williams joined forces at a concert in Auckland to cover Bruce Springsteen‘s “Tougher Than the Rest.” Appearing at the Hollywood Avondale in Aukland, New Zealand, Lorde and Williams performed the Boss’ 1987 hit in a surprise collaboration. Williams sold out a four-night run at the venue, and …

Patti Smith has launched a new weekly newsletter via Substack. In an intro letter, Smith said she hoped to use the newsletter to “form an inter-connective body of work for a responsive community.” She plans to post “weekly ruminations, shards of poetry, music, and musings on whatever subject finds its …