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The rapper Yella Beezy was barely known outside of Dallas just six months ago, but when Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II tour came to town in September, they invited the 26-year-old to open for them. That’s thanks to “That’s on Me,” which is both a great single and …

Follow a long strip of one-lane blacktop through the woods off New York State Route 28 and you’ll find a spooky old estate called Big Indian Springs. A 20-bedroom Victorian hall perched on 37 acres of rolling Catskill foothills, it was once a summer camp for young women who worked …

Listening to Austin-based singer-songwriter Molly Burch, you feel like you could be in a European nightclub in the 1930s or a Texas bar in the 1950s, or a retro-lounge in the last couple decades; there’s Buddy Holly in the way her vowels take joyfully wide-open anticipatory leaps, and some Marlene Dietrich in …

EDITORS’ PICK: Cat Power, Wanderer “Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power, lays full claim to the title of her tenth album,Wandererwith the authority of a blueswoman who’s seen some shit,” writes Will Hermes, “alternately conjuring trances and slapping you out of them, projecting clear-eyed, uncompromising strength on one of the most …

Sonic Youth will mark the 30th anniversary of their 1988 landmark double-album, Daydream Nation, with an event that features three films and “unseen gems from the band’s archives,” according to a statement. Dubbed ‘Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation,‘ the program takes place on October 20th in Portland, Oregon, …

Wizkid, a champion of the Nigerian genre known as afrobeats, released a pair of new songs this week, “Master Groove” and “Fever,” to mark his country’s independence day. Both songs add a lone, squeaky horn line to the usual lilting melodies that define afrobeats. In “Master Groove,” the beat is …

The most radical thing a jazz singer could do in 2018 is stick to the basics. One might expect Cécile McLorin Salvant, who picked up Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammys for each of her past two albums and is riding a wave of mainstream acclaim, to team with a buzzy …

Puerto Rican trap and reggaeton star Bad Bunny made his first television appearance Wednesday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The 24-year-old singer performed his hit song “Estamos Bien,” or “We’re Good,” which debuted at Number 9 on the Hot Latin Songs chart. “He is nominated for five Latin …

When Fleet Foxes released their first album in 2008, the band immediately stood out for its acoustic strumming and wide-open CSNY-style harmonies. The album sold more than 500,000 copies, with Rolling Stone naming it one of the 40 Greatest Stoner Albums of All Time and the group influencing a generation …

UPDATE: Elton John will bring his farewell tour into 2020 after adding seven New York metropolitan area shows to his three-year farewell tour. Tickets for the gigs go on sale to the general public on September 27th. See the new dates below. Elton John added 25 additional North American dates …