Nas and Kendrick Lamar represented two generations of hip-hop excellence as the 2026 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards celebrated influential veterans alongside some of today’s biggest hitmakers in Los Angeles. Nas received the BMI Icon Award, the ceremony’s highest honor, recognizing a career that has helped define lyrical craftsmanship and storytelling in hip-hop for more than three […]
Jelly Roll is no stranger to commanding a stage, but his latest turn in the spotlight put the country star in considerably different territory. While serving as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! during the week of August 24, Jelly Roll used his opening monologues to take aim at President Donald Trump, delivering a string […]
Inter Arma is marking two decades of heavy music with a special East Coast tour, giving longtime fans a chance to hear material pulled from across the band’s sprawling catalog. The Richmond, Virginia group will launch its 20th anniversary run October 8 in Atlanta before traveling through several East Coast cities and wrapping things up […]
Harry Styles turned Madison Square Garden into a celebration of Dolly Parton as he honored the country music legend during his New York City concert Wednesday night. During the Aug. 26 stop on his Together, Together tour, Styles took time to recognize the musicians who helped inspire his own career, singling out Parton and offering […]
More than six decades after “Day Tripper” became part of rock history, Beatles fans are getting the chance to hear the song before one of its most recognizable ingredients had even fallen into place. The Beatles have released an early songwriting recording featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney developing “Day Tripper” at Lennon’s home in […]
Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” became one of the defining hits of her move into mainstream pop, but the song almost sounded nothing like the version millions of listeners came to know. During a recent appearance at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, Swift looked back at the making of the 2012 single […]
Madonna is back at the front of the MTV Video Music Awards pack, leading the 2026 nominations with 11 nods and adding another chapter to one of pop music’s longest-running relationships with the VMAs. The pop icon earned recognition across several of the night’s biggest categories, including Video of the Year and Artist of the […]
Kehlani has little patience for the recurring suggestion that R&B has run out of gas. As conversations about the health of the genre continue to surface, the singer is rejecting the idea that R&B has disappeared. From Kehlani’s perspective, plenty of artists are still making the music. The bigger challenge may be getting listeners to […]
A Matchbox Twenty performance at the Illinois State Fair took an unexpected turn when frontman Rob Thomas accidentally struck longtime bandmate Paul Doucette in the head with a microphone stand. The incident happened Sunday, August 16, as the band performed “Bent,” one of its best-known songs. Thomas was energetically swinging the stand during the performance […]
Al Jardine reached deep into the Beach Boys catalog for an unexpected musical homecoming during a recent performance in Ohio. The Beach Boys co-founder and his Pet Sounds Band were performing at the Robins Theatre in Warren on August 15 when Jardine opened the encore with “Back Home,” a song with roots stretching all the […]