Music

In the early 2000s, the Manchester music scene — and its most scene-connected label, Factory Records — became the basis of one of pop’s most unexpectedly beguiling feature films, 24 Hour Party People. This summer, Creation Stories, a quasi-companion piece to that movie, plans to start shooting in London. The …

This first taste of the “recording projects” Springsteen teased last year after concluding hisBruce On Broadway stint is another E Street Band-less endeavor (though his crew,among them Nils Lofgren, have been busy with their own extracurricular projects). The first track off a forthcoming solo LP, “Hello Sunshine” is Springsteen’s precisely-calibrated …

Brandi Carlile gave passers-by quite the surprise earlier this month when she joined Dave Grohl at Seattle’s Pike Place Market for an inspired busking session. The Grammy winner says the impromptu performance took her back to the more lean years of her career. “It was really surreal, because I used …

Tenille Townes does some post-breakup housecleaning in “I Kept the Roses,” the sparsely produced and emphatically delivered third track released from her upcoming Jay Joyce-produced debut album. Out go the ex’s t-shirts, along with her solitary drinking habit, the couple’s shared friends and those drive-bys to check whether he’s home …

Two days after performing her song “Say It” alongside Questlove on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Maggie Rogers appeared on NBC’s Today to sing “Light On.” It’s the singer-songwriter’s 25th birthday. Wearing a black-and-white duster with hoop earrings, Rogers briefly chatted with Carson Daly before launching into the hit. “I …

Ozzy Osbourne is “getting back on his feet” after undergoing surgery to repair a previous leg injury that he aggravated in a recent fall, his son Jack Osbourne said Wednesday. During a pair of interviews to promote his new Travel Channel show Portals to Hell, Jack offered a health update …

Kip Moore concerts are unique animals, allowing the Georgia singer-songwriter the forum to play hits like “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck” and “Hey Pretty Girl,” new singles such as “The Bull” and even unreleased tracks. Moore also frequently dots his set lists with choice covers, from Ozzy Osborne and Tom Petty …

Shellac, the noisy rock trio fronted by Steve Albini, will put out a double-vinyl collection of previously unreleased recordings they made for BBC Radio’s Peel Sessions. The album, The End of Radio, will come out on June 14th and will include a single CD of the album. The first LP …

At the beginning of last week, Lil Nas X‘s viral country-trap song “Old Town Road” leaped to Number One on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, aided by a remix that featured country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. The night before, Keith Urban won his first ACM Entertainer of the Year honor, …

“When I heard it, I loved it! They did a great job,” Chilli recently told Rolling Stone of Weezer‘s cover of TLC‘s “No Scrubs.” “I hope we can perform it together.” That wish came true Saturday as Weezer welcomed TLC’s Chilli to join the band for “No Scrubs” during their …