Pearl Jam isn’t quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an ...

Piyush Mishra recently opened up about Anurag Kashyap's filmmaking style, criticizing him for consistently ruining the second ...

Prime Video’s latest teen drama “The Runarounds” follows the formation of a high school jam band in North Carolina just before the five friends leave their hometown. William Lipton, Axel Ellis, Jeremy ...

Billboard sizes up the 23 new songs on Bieber's semi-surprise sequel set. By Andrew Unterberger Swag, swag, swag… on II. The suddenly very prolific pop superstar Justin Bieber announced over social ...

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Is there a more powerful marketing tool than nostalgia? It's an essential element of many a reunion tour, where audiences clamor to see acts from pop music's past romp through the hits of their ...

The new song, “Big Crime,” does not mention President Trump by name but includes lines such as, “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House.” By Ben Sisario Neil Young, long one of the most ...

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. An announcement on Aug. 27 from Spotify named five songs of the summer, hand-selected by the ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement via Instagram on Tuesday, Aug. 26. The couple has been together since 2023. A couple of songs of The Tortured Poets Department are likely ...

Drake, Ed Sheeran and Tyler, the Creator, are usually reliable hitmakers. But the songs they’ve put out this summer haven’t stuck around. Instead, listeners keep returning to a power ballad from 1998: ...

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Here is the best progressive rock song of each year since 1969! Progressive rock began in the late 1960s and quickly became one of the most creatively fruitful and consistently satisfying subgenres.