Art by Rob Taylor (This article contains footnotes and may be best read in web browser/app) By now it’s widely accepted that the live industry is fucked for 99% of us. Be it artists struggling to co

Beyond their reputation as one of the most consistently great indie pop bands of the past couple of decades, Los Campesinos! are also among the most transparent. Since going full-on DIY with their sev

Whoo! I tell you what, I love this fucking feeling. A guttural scramble of a guitar riff? A guys bellowing over the top like he's somehow trapped underneath the guitar riff and he needs you to rescue

The Rolling Stones' days as an unstoppable rock 'n' roll roadshow may be behind them, but they're still making noise. Ronnie Wood confirmed late last year that a new album was locked and loaded. Today

Trending on Billboard Alex Warren has signed with United Talent Agency for global representation, the agency announced Tuesday (May 5). UTA will work to secure opportunities for Warren across film,

The Rolling Stones have announced their new album ‘Foreign Tongues’ and confirmed that it will feature guest appearances from Paul McCartney, Robert Smith and more. The rock veterans seemingly confir

Austin City Limits Festival has announced the lineup for its 25th-anniversary edition, which will take place across two weekends in early October. Top-billed artists this year include Charli xcx, the

The Rolling Stones have lifted the curtain on Foreign Tongues, the new album they started teasing last month. The 14-track project arrives July 10 via Capitol. You can check out the album cover from a

Less than a year after its original return, it’s time to go back to Arlen. King of the Hill Season 15 will premiere Monday, July 20th on Hulu (and Hulu on Disney+, for those who bundle their subscript

Our absolute bounty of new Converge music continues. Back in February, the Boston metallic hardcore legends released Love Is Not Enough, their first proper non-collab album in nine years. It's fucking

Trending on Billboard Bad Bunny once again turned heads at the 2026 Met Gala on Monday (May 4) in New York City when he arrived as an aged version of himself. Gray-haired, wrinkled and walking with

Trending on Billboard Noah Kahan had done the thing. He went from playing bars and clubs in his native Vermont and the Northeast to blowing up with his third album, 2022’s Stick Season, which eventua

Trending on Billboard When Freya Skye began writing her eventual breakthrough solo single “Silent Treatment” last spring, she was an aspiring pop star from Buckinghamshire, England, best known for re

Justin Bieber’s post-Coachella streaming dominance has continued, with the pop star earning the title as the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify globally. According to new data shared w

Sturgill Simpson is among the most outspoken and perhaps even cantankerous artists on the current music landscape. That hasn't stopped people from wanting to go see him. After releasing the Johnny Blu

Have you noticed it's been almost three years since Greta Van Fleet's last studio album? In the time since 2023's Starcatcher, the polarizing, often irritating, Zeppelin-worshipping rock band has spli

Foo Fighters were the musical guests on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (April 4). Before the performance of a pair of songs—“Window” and “Caught in the Echo”—Dave Grohl joined Colbert t

Olivia Rodrigo was among the most notable celebrities not on the Met Gala red carpet on Monday, May 4th. Her absence came after she was among the 600,000 people and counting who liked an Instagram pos

Case Oats is the partnership of singer-songwriter Casey Gomez Walker and drummer Spencer Tweedy, who besides being bandmates are engaged to be married. They put out their debut album Last Missouri Exi

Trending on Billboard Megan Thee Stallion has been able to build quite the business empire outside of music, and she proved it once again when she graced the cover of Entrepreneur on Tuesday (May 5).

Fans of alternative, new wave, hard rock, pop and funk will get a bit of everything this summer thanks to newly announced tour dates featuring the Psychedelic Furs and Living Colour. The two groups r

Foo Fighters stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform two songs from their new album Your Favorite Toy: “Caught in the Echo” and “Window.” “Caught in the Echo” came first, and it’s sa

Trending on Billboard THE BIG STORY: Congress loves a “backronym” — awkwardly forcing certain words into the name of new legislation to create a catchy acronym. Want to call your sweeping new surveil

CORTIS‘ second EP, GREENGREEN, treats identity less as a fixed statement than as material to test and push into shape. The six-track project arrived May 4, nine months after the five-member BIGHIT MU

Miley Cyrus‘ “Flowers” added a record-extending 51st week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart dated June 15, 2024, and made more history in the process. As it held at the summit, “Flower

Jason Newsted insists in a new interview that the real reason he left Metallica roughly 25 years ago is because had he stayed in the world’s biggest metal band, he would’ve died. The bassist told the

What an unpredictable collection of proper nouns! On Sunday, the Dave Matthews Band headlined Memphis' Riverbeat Music Festival, with St. Vincent in the immediate-support spot. Those two might not mak

A Canadian fiddle player is suing Google for $1.5million, alleging that its AI Overview wrongly said he was a sex offender. Ashley MacIsaac, an award-winning musician, filed the claim at the Ontario

Triumph fans have been happy to see and hear so many of the group's historic touchstones during its Rock & Roll Machine Reloaded tour dates this spring. And one of those is the white double-neck Gibso

Stevie Nicks and Sabrina Carpenter joined forces at Monday's Met Gala for a pair of charismatic and heartfelt performances, duetting on Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” and “Don’t Stop.” The performances

Trending on Billboard The biggest night in fashion is in the books for 2026, with stars such as Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, Beyoncé and more all showing out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New

Singer-songwriter Bea Miller has signed with Republic Records, the label tells Billboard. The first release under the deal is Miller’s new single, “Depressed on the Internet,” marking her first solo

Austin City Limits has revealed its 2026 lineup, with Charli XCX, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Twenty One Pilots, and Lorde topping the bill. Once again returning to Austin’s Zilker Park for two consecutive weekend

A group of ten music industry organizations formally opposed a proposed 43% average increase to copyright registration fees, arguing the hike would lock out independent creators out of the registratio

Kobalt has promoted Leslie Ahrens to the role of Managing Director and Executive Vice President, Creative, Latin America. In her new dual creative and operational role, Ahrens will report to Jeannett

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