Category: Music

Jessy Lanza has announced a new EP. Slapped by My Life is out this Friday, September 12, via Hyperdub. The project features two versions of the title track, which Lanza co-produced with Pearson Sound’s David Kennedy. Below, watch a video for “Slapped by My Life” directed by and starring Lanza’s husband, Winston Case. “I wrote…

Next year would have marked Miles Davis’ 100th birthday. In advance of the centennial, independent music rights company Reservoir Media has struck a deal with the Miles Davis estate to acquire 90 percent of Davis’ music publishing rights and the estate’s income from his catalog, according to The New York Times. Reservoir and the estate…

Big Ears returns to downtown Knoxville, Tennessee from March 26-29. David Byrne, Robert Plant, Laurie Anderson, Flying Lotus, and John Zorn will headline the music, art, and film festival. Both Plant and Anderson are presenting new projects—Anderson’s, titled X², is a sequel to Let X=X, which she performed at Big Ears 2024—while Zorn will stage…

YNW Bortlen, the Florida rapper who was arrested, in 2019, and accused of taking part in the killings of two members of his YNW crew, has agreed to take a plea deal. Bortlen pleaded no contest to one count of tampering with a witness, two counts of being an accessory to a capital felony, and…

A vehicle registered to D4vd, the Houston singer-songwriter who became an internet sensation with the 2023 EP Petals to Thorns, is under police investigation after a chopped-up, decomposing body was found in a bag in its front trunk, TMZ and Los Angeles news outlets report. The Tesla is registered in Hempstead, Texas, but had been…

Back in the 1970s, British musicians frequented American hotels. And one day in 1974, Christopher Guest, a young comedic actor and writer, happened upon a U.K. ensemble checking into the Chateau Marmont. “Where’s your bass?” the manager asked one musician in a Cockney accent. “Wot?” “I said, ‘Where’s your bass?’” “Wot?” The conversation went several…

Hot on the heels of her extravagant performance at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga was the musical guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (September 8). Wearing a black dress for this quieter performance, Gaga played piano with a guitar duo backing her for a sparse rendition of “Vanish Into You”…

Rick Davies, the founder, lead singer, and primary songwriter of Supertramp, died on Saturday, September 6, according to a post on the British rock band’s website. Davies had been living with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, for more than 10 years, the group said. He was 81 years old. Richard Davies was born…

Big Thief have enlisted Adrianne Lenker’s brother, Noah, to direct a video for their Double Infinity track “Words.” In the short, the band indulges in mystical activities—conjuring, transmogrifying, reading alphabetti spaghetti tea leaves—in various rural settings, using the power of words to unlock mysteries of the universe. Join them below. This is Big Thief’s first…

Montréal-based pop experimental artist N NAO, born Naomie de Lorimier, is redefining herself and her identity through sound. Signed to Montréal-based indie label Mothland, N NAO uses music as a personal outlet and a means of self-exploration. Though Lorimier sings exclusively in French, her work resonates with both francophone and anglophone audiences. Lorimier’s reach extends…