Music

Imagine Dragons have released two new songs, “Follow You” and “Cutthroat.” The tracks are the band’s first new music since they released their fourth studio album, 2018’s Origins. On “Follow You” singer Dan Reynolds addresses the dedication required in a committed relationship. “I’ll follow you way down where you may …

SZA has paired her hit single “Good Days” with a psychedelic new music video directed by the singer. In the visual, a dreaming SZA envisions she is a magic mushroom growing in the forest, dancing among the other fungi and spraying spores; that footage is juxtaposed with SZA pole-dancing in …

Jamila Woods had been reading Miles Davis’ autobiography in college as an assignment for a course on the jazz legend when she first heard of funk and soul singer Betty Davis, her pick forRolling Stone‘s Icons & Influencesseries. Woods got to the page where the trumpeter describes first meeting Betty …

Maroon 5 have released a new song with Megan Thee Stallion, “Beautiful Mistakes.” “Beautiful Mistakes” is a subtle bit of pop-rock with heavy drums anchoring a swirl of atmospheric synths and soft guitar. The lyrics find frontman Adam Levine wracked by memories of lost love — “I wouldn’t take ’em …

With the concert industry shut down for the foreseeable future and his bandmates spread to various spots around the planet, Mick Fleetwood truly doesn’t know what the future holds for Fleetwood Mac. But that hasn’t stopped the drummer from looking ahead and sketching out a possible farewell tour in his …

Willie Nelson will have a new book on shelves this summer. Willie Nelson’s Letters to America is an inspiring collection of letters from the Red Headed Stranger to his readers about what it means to be a U.S. citizen. Letters to America will be published by Harper Horizon on June …

A bunch of buddies — including Saturday Night Live host Regé-Jean Page — bond over Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” while shooting pool in an SNL sketch centered on the smash single. In the sketch — likely a scene from a post-Covid pool hall — Page’s character selects Rodrigo’s song on …

When the British Invasion arrived in America in the mid-1960s, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and other bands introduced songs like “Little Red Rooster” and “Road Runner” to American teenagers who assumed they were originals. In fact, those bands’ catalogs were full of American R&B and blues classics from years …

Haviah Mighty’s “Obeah” explores the spirituality of that Caribbean practice — describing the bad energy one might catch from a jealous friend. A true storyteller, Mighty introduces the listener to a cast of characters over the course of the song: the omnipotent narrator warning the protagonist of the ire of …

Peter Gabriel emerged from a long musical hiatus last week with a re-recording of his 1980 protest classic “Biko” where he was joined by artists from the around the world, including Yo-Yo Ma, the Cape Town Ensemble, Sebastian Robertson, and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello. It was part of Playing for Change’s …