Music

Earlier this month, the R&B singer Ty Dolla $ign stood in the middle of a small studio crammed with listeners in midtown Manhattan as his Beach House 3 album rumbled through the speakers. Flanked by two golden “$” balloons, he celebrated the new release by dragging on a joint, conducting …

Brian Eno has long been a fan of My Bloody Valentine‘s fuzzy shoegaze Impressionism, so he welcomed that band’s Kevin Shields into his studio to experiment with sounds. The result is “Only Once Away My Son,” a new track the pair is releasing via Adult Swim’s “singles program.” Over the …

Billy Joel, “the King of Long Island,” visitedJimmy Kimmel Live Thursday in Brooklyn, with the singer impersonating Bruce Springsteen, announcing an extension to his Madison Square Garden residency and performing “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)” during the episode. The interview came the day after both Joel …

Dierks Bentley was featured on Tuesday’s Good Morning America broadcast on ABC, performing his songs “Black” and “Somewhere on a Beach,” at a neighborhood block party in Austin, Texas. The gathering, which took place on Riverton Drive in theRattan Creek neighborhood, was the result of a contest entry submitted by …

Bootsy Collins plays scalding funk on new single “Hot Saucer,” featuring singer-songwriter Musiq Soulchild and rapper Big Daddy Kane. The iconic Funkadelic bassist anchors the track with a dirty, distorted bass. Soulchild croons a series of food-as-sex metaphors (including nods to collard greens and “cheese on grits”) and Big Daddy …

The Last Bandoleros have released a new song that blends their Beatles-esque harmonies with muscular guitars. “Fly With You” is the first of six new songs that the eclectic foursome, who mix rock, Tex-Mex and country, plan to release over the coming year. “The track was built around a Foo …

Tove Lo embarks on a debaucherous road trip with a frisky puppet in the wild new video for “Disco Tits.” The track will appear on the Swedish pop star’s upcoming album, Blue Lips, which is expected to arrive in November via Island Records. The Tim Erem-directed clip opens with Tove …

Hours before Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers wrapped up their 2014 Hypnotic Eye tour at the The Forum in Los Angeles, we conducted extensive interviews with three core members of the band: guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench and bassist Ron Blair. The conversations were intended for a special edition …

The xx performed “Dangerous” and“Say Something Loving,”two melodic tracks from their third LP,I See You, on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Bassist Oliver Sim opened “Dangerous” with a thumping low-end, while resident beat-maker Jamie xx bounced around the stage to trigger brass samples and electronics. Sim and singer Romy Madley Croft …

Success came quickly for 18-year-old British singer-songwriter Steven Demetre Georgiou when he began releasing singles under the name Cat Stevens in 1966. His debut single “I Love My Dog” rose to Number 28 on the UK singles chart and follow-up single “Matthew and Son” hit Number Two. But it would …