Welcome to the 10th Songs of the Week of 2026. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to ...

In 1934, a homeless seventeen-year-old named Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the Apollo Theatre stage, abandoned her planned ...

More than five decades after its release, Neil Young’s 1975 epic “Cortez the Killer” continues to be celebrated as one of the ...

Rock and roll isn’t designed to sound perfect. Despite all the endless reissues, Neil Young knows this all too well. The analogue star has often lamented the fact that there are a lot of musicians who ...

It's probably fair to say that most of us have never slapped someone so hard with a wet fish that they fall, fully clothed, into a swimming pool. Until recently, that was also true for Icelandic ...

Bruce Hornsby didn’t want to record this album. After a five-year run of musically intrepid and critically acclaimed studio LPs – Absolute Zero, Non-Secure Connection, ‘Flicted, Deep Sea Vents – as ...

The seemingly one-off engagement has McCartney mostly reprising his 2025 arena-tour setlist in a grandly confined space. Of course, when the world’s most celebrated living musician is playing at a ...

Defying Decay do exactly what they say on the tin. Some 30 years since Linkin Park toyed with the band name Hybrid Theory to represent their meld of metal, hip-hop and electronic, the Thai collective ...

Is AI an invaluable tool for musicians — or an existential threat? Controversy about new technology has been a constant in the music industry since the first mechanically operated player pianos were ...

Billy Joel sold out Carnegie Hall in Manhattan on Thursday night — except he wasn’t onstage. He was seated in the audience for "The Music of Billy Joel," a star-studded charity event featuring 20 acts ...

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello co-directs this adoring bio-doc tracing the British band’s 50-year journey from the industrial Midlands to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. By David Rooney ...