CORTIS hit Grant Park with a 12-song performance at Lollapalooza Chicago 2026, bringing their mix of K-pop and hip-hop to the festival on August 1. The group, featuring Martin, James, Juhoon, Seonghyeon and Keonho, packed their set with synchronized choreography, live vocals and plenty of movement across the stage as they played for the Chicago […]

Langhorne Slim has taken one of popular music’s most enduring songs and made it part of Dualtone Records’ 25th birthday celebration. His new version of “What A Wonderful World,” the Bob Thiele and George David Weiss composition made famous by Louis Armstrong, appears on ‘Keep Pressing On: 25 Years Of Dualtone,’ a 17-song collection of […]

Horse Jumper of Love are looking back at the basement-made album that unexpectedly became a slowcore touchstone with a remastered and expanded 10th anniversary edition of their self-titled debut. The deluxe edition is out now via Run For Cover Records, pairing the original nine-song album with 13 bonus tracks of unreleased songs, demos and alternate […]

AiramFM turns feelings of isolation into something sweeping and cinematic on her 25th single, “The Impostor (Orchestral Version).” Released September 28, the new version was written, recorded and produced entirely by the Danish dark and alternative pop artist from her DIY home studio. “The Impostor” explores the feeling of growing up different, carrying the sense […]

Miranda Lambert is bringing her sold-out Nashville album-release show to fans everywhere, with Amazon Music set to stream the performance as a special Songline Live broadcast on October 7. The concert will be recorded October 1 as Lambert opens Nashville’s newest venue, The Truth, with a one-night-only performance celebrating her new album, ‘Crisco,’ which arrives […]

Kashus Culpepper is bringing horns, a prominent rhythm section and a jazzier feel to three of his songs for a new Apple Music Sessions release. Watch it here. The Alabama singer-songwriter’s three-song session includes fresh versions of early fan favourites “Jenni” and “Out Of My Mind,” along with a cover of the Isley Brothers’ 1959 […]

Jacob Collier can make music theory feel less like a lesson and more like discovering a secret that’s been hiding inside your favourite songs all along. In his TED talk ‘The Wiggly Wonder of Music,’ the Grammy-winning musician introduces what he calls the “wiggle,” the feeling that gives music its movement, personality and humanity. Armed […]

Dirty Honey are taking their biggest European headline tour yet across 16 countries in early 2027, with 30 shows supporting the band’s third studio album, ‘Catch My Butterfly.’ The Lights Out EU/UK Tour ’27 begins January 31 at Kavka Oudaan in Antwerp and runs through March 15 at La Maroquinerie in Paris, with stops throughout […]

Erasure are heading into their fifth decade with a new album, a new single and a major arena tour across the UK and Europe. Andy Bell and Vince Clarke will release their 20th studio album, ‘Radio!! Radio!!,’ on March 12, 2027 through Mute, marking their first new studio record in six years. The announcement arrives […]

Joshua Redman is paying tribute to the musician he considers his greatest influence with ‘If Ever You Would Leave Us (We Play for Rollins),’ an album created in the weeks immediately following the death of Sonny Rollins. Arriving November 20 through Blue Note Records, Redman’s third album for the label features 11 selections from Rollins’ […]

Jack Grisham is confronting grief head-on with “Angel Funeral,” the fifth single from the upcoming self-titled debut album by Jack Grisham and the Life Undone. The song arrives exclusively through Coda Music and YouTube ahead of its wider digital release on October 27. The full ‘Jack Grisham and the Life Undone’ album will debut exclusively […]

Synth-pop has always had a complicated relationship with emotion. The synthesizer could sound futuristic, icy, mechanical, melancholy or deliberately detached. Plenty of the genre’s greatest records found their power in exactly those qualities. Then Erasure came along sounding like they were having the time of their lives. When Vince Clarke and Andy Bell formed Erasure […]

Going out starts long before you actually leave the house. It starts when the music goes on. You’re picking an outfit, changing it, changing it back, doing your hair, texting the group chat, checking the mirror and suddenly performing an entire chorus to yourself because the right song has convinced you that tonight is going […]

Imagine trying to build one of the biggest bands in the world while largely ignoring the two machines that were supposed to make bands enormous. No hit radio single. No glossy MTV video. No carefully engineered attempt to squeeze your music into whatever format programmers wanted. Metallica’s early rise is one of the great examples […]

Your website is probably the least exciting thing in your digital strategy. Good. Social media gets the attention. TikTok can introduce a song to millions of people overnight. Instagram keeps fans connected to what you’re doing. YouTube gives your music, interviews and performances somewhere to live. Streaming platforms are where most listeners actually press play. […]

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris released ‘Trio’ on 2 March 1987, closing out a collaboration these three friends and admirers had been trying to make happen since the mid-1970s. Producer George Massenburg brought the project together across sessions at The Complex, Woodland, and Ocean Way studios throughout 1986, more than a decade after […]

: A song can have more than one lifetime. It can be a hit when it first comes out, slowly settle into the catalogue, and then, years or even decades later, suddenly turn up inside another artist’s record. A bassline gets chopped up. A chorus is rebuilt. A vocal gets pulled out of an old […]

Every Canadian music fan who first heard a favourite band on the radio owes something to David Marsden. The broadcaster who transformed a tiny Brampton station into CFNY, “The Spirit of Radio,” died on Friday, September 25, at 85, leaving behind a career that reshaped how this country discovers music. Here are 20 things you […]

A Perfect Circle is heading into 2027 with new music and an extensive North American tour that will put Maynard James Keenan on double duty for part of the run. The band has released “To Whom It May Concern,” its second new single of the year and the follow-up to “Starless,” which recently reached No. […]

Dolly Parton’s coffee dream was more than 40 years in the making, and now fans across the country can finally pour themselves a Cup of Ambition. Dolly’s Cup of Ambition, the late country icon’s coffee line developed with family-owned Community Coffee, officially launched nationwide on National Coffee Day following its earlier debut at Dolly’s Tennessean […]

Lisa is adding two more nights to her first Las Vegas residency after the original four shows sold out in less than 10 minutes. The Blackpink star will bring ‘Viva La Lisa’ to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace for newly announced performances on November 12 and 29, expanding the residency to six shows in total. […]

Billy Joel’s ‘Turnstiles’ is turning 50 with 67 audio tracks, 32 video performances and enough unreleased material to retrace one of the most important transitional periods of his career. Columbia Records and Sony’s Legacy Recordings will release ‘Turnstiles – 50th Anniversary Edition’ on December 11 as a four-CD/Blu-ray box set. Of its 67 audio tracks, […]