Music

Keith Flint, frontman of British techno-punk group the Prodigy, was pronounced dead on Monday morning of apparent suicide. Having previously served as the group’s onstage dancer since 1990, Flint debuted his own sneering nihilist style in their 1996 hit “Firestarter,” a high-octane breakbeat masterpiece which would catapult the band to …

Saturday Night Live musical guest Gary Clark Jr.– who was introduced by host Don Cheadle sporting a “Protect Trans Kids” t-shirt– delivered an electric performance of “Pearl Cadillac,” the third single from his forthcoming albumThis Land. Clark’s first performance of the episode was light on the theatrics and heavy on …

John Legend has shared his powerful new video for “Preach,” the singer’s response to myriad social issues affecting marginalized communities. “The idea behind the song is that sometimes we can get so frustrated by the news and what’s going on and there’s this scatter going on in ourselves,” Legend said …

Not long after Travis Meadows, an aspiring singer-songwriter, moved to Nashville over a decade ago, he hit a wall. “Every possible crisis a man could have, I had: a marriage crisis, a crisis of faith, a career crisis, all at the same time,” he says. “I crashed and burned, went …

Childish Gambino and Kacey Musgraves took home the biggest prizes at the 2019 Grammy Awards, with the rapper winning both Song and Record of the Year for “This Is America” and the country musician taking home Album of the Year for Golden Hour. Both Musgraves and Childish Gambino notched four …

After taking a break during Super Bowl weekend, Saturday Night Live returned with Halsey pulling double duty as both host and musical guest. The Hopeless Fountain Kingdom singer delivered a powerful, stripped-down performance of her Number One hit “Without Me.” While singing a piano ballad rendition of the track, a …

Toward the end of Bebe Rexha‘s mini-set at Thursday night’s Spotify party for the Grammys’ Best New Artist nominees at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum, the pop singer-songwriter stopped her hit “Meant to Be” as the song began. “I worked too hard for this fucking bullshit,” she admonished the lethargic audience. …

DNA is the first Backstreet Boys album to hit Number One in nearly 20 years, quite a moment for a group that’s spent the lion’s share of those two decades wandering the pop wilderness. Of course, if the BSB who sold somewhere in the neighborhood of eleventy skadillion records between …

For her debut appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Margo Price took a star turn with her song “Cocaine Cowboys,” stretching out the All American Made track into a seven-minute jam and taking a seat behind a second drum kit for an extended musical outro. The country-funk track, a staple of …

Since his arrest on Sunday night, the particulars of 21 Savage‘s legal situation have been murky. According to a Tuesday evening statement from his legal team,headed by immigration lawyer Charles H. Kuck, that’s in part because previous statements from ICE contributed to the confusion by providing misinformation. According to the …