Music

Yusuf/Cat Stevens has announced the children’s book Peace Train, out May 11th via HarperCollins. The book is in celebration of the song’s 50th anniversary; the track appeared on 1971’s Teaser and the Firecat. Yusuf has teamed up with Peter H. Reynolds for the book’s illustration. “I wrote these lyrics more …

Zayn Malik conjures crushing-out anticipation and tension between lovers in his new song “Vibez.” The single is slated to appear on the singer’s upcoming third studio album, Nobody Is Listening, which will arrive on January 15th via RCA Records. The sultry slow jam finds the R&B-pop crooner in an amorous …

We already declared Taylor Swift‘s Folklore to be the Best Album of 2020. But until now, we had yet to hear from the numbers. Now, the numbers have spoken, the data has assembled into integers and decimal points, and the answer is in: Folklore is the biggest album of 2020, …

Singer-songwriter Hailey Whitters has teamed up with country vocal quartet Little Big Town for the new single and video “Fillin’ My Cup,” the first new music Whitters has released since her 2020 album The Dream. A fiddle-driven country-rocker with ringing electric guitars and beefy drums, “Fillin’ My Cup” was written …

John “Ecstasy” Fletcher, rapper and founding member of the pioneering hip-hop group Whodini, has died at the age of 56. The group’s Grand Master Dee confirmed Fletcher’s death to Variety. No cause of death was provided. News of Fletcher’s death was first revealed by the Roots’ Questlove, with many others …

Radiohead launched a series of digital holiday greeting cards via their online Public Library. Fittingly for the band responsible for “Fitter Happier,” these digital notes are more unsettling than generically festive. The outside design options are “FA LA LA,” “LA-LA,” LA, LA,” LA” and “LAA,” and the inside choices include …

Singer-songwriter Dijon has released a new song, “The Stranger,” which features a unique cast of guests including John C. Reilly and Tobias Jesso, Jr. “The Stranger” is a folk posse cut of sorts that finds Dijon and his guests — who also include Sachi DiSerafino, Dan Reeder, and Thea Gustafsson …

Bad Bunny has joined the cast of the upcoming action filmBullet Train starring Brad Pitt,Deadline reported on Tuesday. Directed byHobbs & Shaw filmmaker David Leitch from a script written by Zak Olkewicz, the film is based off of the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by bestselling author Kotaro Isaka. The cast …

So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Angel Olsen stripped her music down to its barest essentials on this summer’s Whole New …

So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Haim released their most daring album to date,Women in Music Pt. III, this past June, …