Music

Dave Mustaine will host a livestream of Megadeth‘s 2017 appearance at Germany’s Wacken Open Air Festival Thursday on its website at 5 p.m. EST, with Mustaine telling stories and answering questions in a live chat as the gig plays. The group’s set list at that show – witnessed by some …

Page McConnell has been Phish’s keyboard wizard for the past 37 years. Today, however, his job is a little different. “I was teaching common denominators to my nine-year-old daughter,” he says. “I’ve been the math instructor, and music appreciation.” McConnell is checking in from his Burlington, Vermont, home, where he’s …

Artists used to focus on becoming popular in their home territories first before attempting to reach out to an international audience. But in a world increasingly interconnected by a few popular streaming services, that dynamic has changed. “It’s become easier [for artists] to go overseas first,” Vincent “Tuff” Morgan, vice …

Country-trap performer Breland enjoyed a viral hit earlier in 2020 with “My Truck,” an irresistible ode to pickups that zoomed to the top of Spotify’s charts after Tik Tok users began using it enthusiastically. After signing a new record deal, the Atlanta-based performer has returned with a remix of “My …

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell recorded a new COVID-19-inspired song titled “Lockdown” and shot a video for it around his Los Angeles home studio. Fans can download it here for $1.00 (or whatever amount they choose) with the proceeds benefitting Feeding America. “Since we’re all keeping away …

John Fogerty and his children have spent the last few weeks of quarantine jamming on Creedence classics like “Lodi” and “Down on the Corner” for their fans on YouTube. Now, they’ve decided to expand on the concept with a new SiriusXM special titled The Fogerty Rockin’ Family Hour. The show …

The nationwide shutdown of the concert industry has forced musicians to get creative. Over the past month, everyone from Neil Young to Paul Simon to Elvis Costello to Joan Baez to the Backstreet Boys has released homemade performance videos. The newest one comes from Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante, in collaboration …

Leon Bridges and John Mayer have teamed for a new one-off single, the laidback soul track “Inside Friend.” Despite its quarantine-like song title, “Inside Friend” was recorded in 2019 during an impromptu jam session between Bridges and Mayer. “The concept for ‘Inside Friend’ came about from Mayer and I joking …

Twenty One Pilots try to tap into a little bit of hope amid the coronavirus pandemic on their new song, “Level of Concern.” The track marks the alt-rock duo’s first new music since their 2018 LP Trench; it was written in recent weeks while frontman Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun …

In the 24 hours since John Prine died of complications from COVID-19 on Tuesday, countless musicians and artists have paid tribute to the Nashville legend. Here, singer-songwriter Todd Snider remembers his hero, mentor, and friend. The first time I heard about John Prine, I was about 19 and I was …