Music

St. Vincent performed her stripped-down rendition of “New York” during Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s Brooklyn residency Tuesday. The radical reworking of the track features on Annie Clark’s new album Masseducation, which reinterprets the songs off her 2017 LP Masseduction. While the original take of “New York” boasted strings, multi-tracked vocals and …

Two years ago, Morgan Evans was a hungry singer-songwriter trying to make his way in Nashville after moving from his native Australia, where his career was already flourishing. In the brief time since, he has nearly lived an entire life. In late 2016, he became engaged to and later married …

Idina Menzel unveiled a stunning cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” The track will appear as a bonus song on the singer’s upcoming album, Idina: Live, which arrives October 12th. Menzel’s version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” boasts a simple piano arrangement that’s bolstered perfectly by an …

Esperanza Spalding is determined to turn her music into an event. After writing and recording her 2017 album, Exposure, during a continuous 77-hour live stream, she’s devised a similarly splashy roll-out for12 Little Spells. This time, she’s unveiling one song per day at 12:12 p.m. EST for 12 days — …

It’s a Monday afternoon in August, and Steve Perry is cheerfully belting out the Backstreet Boys’ “As Long As You Love Me.” Perry is visiting a buddy at his house in San Francisco, and the singer — who grew up on Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and the Kingston Trio, and …

There’s a simple but effective formula to a Sheck Wes song: a bass-rattling beat, off-key singing, basketball references and a lot of “bitch” ad-libs. Also, the Harlem rapper loves to say his own name. It doesn’t matter if it’s the basis of a hook (“Live Sheck Wes, bitch, I’m dying …

Matthew Houck’s studio is located at the back of a warehouse complex in East Nashville, the sort of place that looks like a quirky crime family in a Showtime drama might store a suitcase of unmarked bills there, hiding their stash in one of the pinkish-gray structures that border a …

Tina, a musical based on the life and music of Tina Turner, will open make its Broadway debut in Fall 2019. It is currently playing at the Aldwych Theatre in London’s West End. Tinamade its world premiere in London in April 2018 and will continue to run there for the …

Dawes return today with their new Feed the Fire EP, focusing solely on the breezy, contemplative roots-rock track that was originally found on their latest album Passwords. The new EP includes four versions of the tune, including a live cut and a “barebones” acoustic take. To accompany the release the …

Artists these days have a new concern at the forefront of their minds when designing tours and concerts: how they look not just to live audiences — but also to millions, and potentially billions, of people at home. A chief driver of that worry is Instagram. In the last year, …