Music

“Just set me free,” Nathaniel Rateliff repeats over and over like a mantra in his new song “Redemption.” Written especially for the upcoming Apple Original movie Palmer, starring Justin Timberlake, the ballad starts quietly but builds, with haunting claps and stomps, to a wall-of-sound crescendo. “Keep running until we learn …

Megan The Stallion and James Corden spun the rapper’s hit single “Savage” into a festive Christmas ditty on Monday Night’sLate Late Show, titling it — what else? — “Santa.” Decked out as Saint Nick himself, Corden bounced around Christmas trees onstage with Megan, who gifted us some way-better-than-they-needed-to-be bars to …

Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin dropped a cover of Beastie Boys‘ “Sabotage” on Thursday night. It’s the pair’s first release from their “The Hanukkah Sessions” series, which features a new cover song by a Jewish artist each night for the eight-day Festival of Lights. In the clip, the pair perform …

Gorillaz have always prided themselves on being the biggest virtual band in the world —so it makes sense that the cartoon pop act has adapted well to this dystopian year of life behind the screen. “We’ve just been waiting for this, really,” says Damon Albarn, 52, with a wry laugh. …

Miley Cyrus added a new cover to her repertoire, performing Hole’s “Doll Parts” during an episode of The Howard Stern Show earlier this week, December 2nd. While Cyrus said she and her band had only worked out the cover the day before, the performance of the Live Through This classic …

Phoebe Bridgers has been doing some great late-night performances lately, making the best of Covid-19 protocols and pre-taped shows by filming what are essentially performance music videos for her songs. Her latest was “Savior Complex,” performed on Wednesday night’s Tonight Show inside of what appeared to be a haunted attic. Dressed …

Lil Nas X delivered his debut performance of his latest single “Holiday” in the first episode of Amazon Music’s three-part holiday concert series,Holiday Plays, which premiered on Tuesday. The rapper is serving double-duty as a musical performer as well as host for the show. “Holiday” is Lil Nas X’s first …

Billy Idol has always pushed the boundaries of chronological time, starting with the anachronistic 1970s punk look he modeled all over 1980s MTV. Idol turned 65 on November 30th, three days after the release of Miley Cyrus’ new album, Plastic Hearts, which features a brand-new duet with him on the …

BTS are on track for their first Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart with latest album, BE. The 7-track project, which is the followup to Map of the Soul: 7,tops the daily version of the RS 200, ahead of Megan Thee Stallion‘s long-awaited debut studio album, …

AC/DC‘s Power Up debuts at Number One on this week’s Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart, marking the band’s first time topping the chart. Power Up, which is AC/DC’s seventeenth studio album, saw 124,700 album-equivalent units from November 13th through November 19th, the majority of which came from sales, with …