Music

Tom Petty‘s 1965 Gibson SG guitar is headed to auction alongside other items that belonged to the rocker, including one of his signature top hats. Rare guitar collector Norm Harris is providing the lots, which will be sold via Heritage Auctions July 21st in Dallas, Texas. The 1965 SG boasts …

Drake debuted a handful of Scorpion tracks live Sunday night at London’s Wireless Festival. The rapper served as a surprise, last-minute headliner after DJ Khaled canceled on the fest. DJ Khaled pulled out of Wireless due to “travel issues.” According to the festival’s Twitter account, Khaled’s absence was due to …

Despite a spate of thunderstorms that necessitated the cancellation of sets by Ray Wylie Hubbard and the Wild Feathers, among others, Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic near Austin provided transcendent musical moments – including one political cameo. Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic congressman from El Paso, Texas, who will challenge …

Life on the road can often by an unglamorous existence, but for musicians who have families it can also mean missing out seeing their kids grow up. Corey Smith has a touching new song, “Halfway Home,” in which he addresses the separation of the touring life. Sung with the soft-spoken …

This D.C. quartet’s terse debut grinds and giggles as it flips off the status quo, taking the old saw about dancing’s place in a revolution and repurposing it as a credo for a perpetual-motion, no-jerks-allowed mosh pit. Vocalist Adriana-Lucia Cotes has an urgent yelp that gives her bandmates’ spiky, nimble …

Late Monday night, Lil Yachty and Valee dropped off their first collaboration to date, the curiously titled “Wombo,” on SoundCloud. It’s an incongruous pairing. Yachty’s best known for his sheer force of personality and red braids – his technical approach to rapping can generally be described as lackadaisical. Valee, a …

Being raised in a home of Orthodox Faith had its pros and cons for me. My parents raised me in the faith that they truly believed would lead to me having my best life (and afterlife) – Mormonism. Being a Mormon is not a part time religion. It is your …

EDM trio Cheat Codes enlisted British pop group Little Mix for their new single “Only You.”The singers croon about how lonely they are (“Dancing with your silhouette in the places that we met,” they try’na find you in the moon”) over rippling electric guitar, pitch-shifted vocal samples and skittering electronic …

Cher and actor Andy Garcia unite for a delightfully dramatic cover of ABBA‘s “Fernando,” set to appear on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. This new version of “Fernando” finds Cher‘s resonant vocals drifting over the song’s signature fluttering flutes and marching drums. Garcia …

EDITORS’ PICK: Christina Aguilera, Liberation “On Liberation, [Aguilera] gets closer than ever to zeroing in on the right path for her immense skills,” writes Brittany Spanos. “Her eighth album is a healthy mix of hit-chasing, theatrics and soon-to-be classic power ballads that emphasize her immense skills over half-baked conceptual themes…Once …