Music

On a recent visit to New York from their home country Jamaica, the No-Maddz pop into a record store and seek out the reggae section — only to find a few scantly filled bins near the back. “They treat it like it’s niche,” sighs tall, lanky Sheldon “Sheppie” Shepherd. Everaldo …

After two mass shootings targeting country music fans, the 2017 Route 91 Harvest festival massacre and the following year’s Borderline Bar & Grill attack, country music artists slowly began speaking out in favor of gun reform. The call for regulation only increased in August following mass shootings in Gilroy, California; …

Rick Ross, proud owner of several Wingstops and a Checkers, is now serving rap comfort food. Most of his 10th album, Port of Miami 2, is Ross exactly as you know and love him: the obscene boasts, the window-cracking bass, the speedboat cool, the various spins on raps-to-riches success. Lines …

A$AP Ferg has announced a headlining North American tour this fall in support of his upcoming EP Floor Seats. The 33-date “Yedi Tour” launches November 7th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and wraps December 21st in Brooklyn, New York. Throughout the trek, A$AP Ferg will be joined by producer Murda Beatz, rapper …

This Friday Mexican norteño legends Los Tigres del Norte release “La Prisión de Folsom (Folsom Prison Blues),” the lead single and video from the band’s upcoming Netflix Original Documentary, Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison, along with asoundtrack album of the same name. Both are due out in September, …

Mary J. Blige released her latest single “Know” on Thursday, a song that pays tribute to women around the world who have given everything to better their own lives and the lives of their families. “When you hear the word ‘queen,’ you think of a woman getting everything she wants,” …

The 2019 class of tunesmiths set for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame have been revealed: Larry Gatlin, Dwight Yoakam, Marcus Hummon, Kostas, Rivers Rutherford, and Sharon Vaughn will be honored during an October ceremony. Representing literally hundreds of familiar hits covering the past five decades, the inductees …

Björk has dropped a mind-bending new video for “Losss,” a track off her 2017 album Utopia. The clip is directed by visual artist Tobias Gremmler, who worked on the Icelandic artist’s video for “Tabula Rasa” earlier this summer. The video features Björk shape-shifting in a psychedelic abyss, floating and transforming …

James Corden is an apparent fan of the summer bop. So much so that the late night host challenged John Legend to a riff-off that put the summer bop up against the summer ballad during a segment on The Late Late Show. “Whenever I turn the radio on now all …

Talking with Rolling Stone less than an hour after Woodstock 50 was cancelled, festival founder and co-organizer Michael Lang sounds surprisingly at peace. “I’m disappointed,” he says. “But I’ve been sort of prepared.” Many who have been following the months-long rollercoaster ride that was Woodstock 50 were probably also not …