Music

Saturday Night Live returned following a holiday break with Adam Driver on hosting duties and Halsey as the show’s musical guest for the first episode of the 2020s. Clad in a bedazzled leather bodysuit with a rhinestone-encrusted cowboy hat, Halsey opened her performance riding a mechanical bull while delivering a …

The War and Treaty have returned with a pair of new songs. The duo of spouses Michael Trotter and Tanya Blount-Trotter released “Jealousy” and “Hustlin’” on Friday, marking their first music since signing with Rounder Records in mid-2019 and a preview of the follow-up to their Buddy Miller-produced 2018 album …

Ezra Furman wrote Sex Education’s standout track “Every Feeling” during one of her “depression days.” The song is featured on TheSex Education OriginalSoundtrack, out Friday via Bella Union. “When I first wrote it, I thought it was too simple to even be legitimate. I thought it was half of a …

The Go-Go’s will return to the road after a short-lived retirement for a run of summer dates in support of an upcoming Showtime documentary. The shows, which will take place in theaters and more intimate venues, will kick off on June 25th in San Diego and wrap in Costa Mesa, …

Code Orange will hit the road for a U.S. tour in support of their upcoming LP, Underneath, this spring. The group has dubbed the trek the Underneath the Skin Tour, and the support acts include Show Me the Body, Jesus Piece, Year of the Knife, and Machine Girl. Presales started …

Meghan Trainor released her latest Treat Myself single, “Blink,” on Friday. A motivational anthem, the track features Trainor singing over a dubstep-inspired production about her newfound confidence: “The only one left/They don’t make ’em like this, oh/I’m an innocent bad bitch/So don’t even wink, watch out, watch out for me.” Trainor’s …

In the mid-Nineties, Chester Bennington fronted a grungy Arizona band called Grey Daze that split up around the time that he joined Linkin Park. Now, two years after the singer’s death, the band will be putting out its first widely released record, which contains vocals Bennington recorded as a teenager. …

Climate change activism reached an apex over the last half-decade, and its urgency can be felt all over music, from the damning last words in ANOHNI’s “4 Degrees” to the apocalyptic queen’s wave of Lana Del Rey’s “The Greatest,” bidding adieu to Los Angeles as it turns to ash in …

Roddy Ricch‘s “The Box” enjoyed a second week at Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. Ricch’s 50.9 million streams easily kept a comeback single from Justin Bieber at bay — the Atlantic Records rapper out-streamed Bieber by more than two-to-one. Ricch’s other hit, “Ballin” with …

Ashley McBryde previews her hotly anticipated second album with a pulse-quickening new video for the dark revenge tune, “Martha Divine.” Backed by an unrelenting drumbeat that echoes the intense heartbeat of someone racing toward peril, the song’s storyline find the narrator in hot, angry pursuit of the title character, an …