Music

Louis Forster of the excellent Australian indie-pop band the Goon Sax started writing songs when he was seven years old, right after he got his grade-school-aged mind blown by Green Day’s American Idiot. He kept at it for years, but he never really felt comfortable sharing his work with anyone …

Robby Hauldren and Frederic Kennett, who make electronic pop music as Louis the Child, released a colorful video for “Dear Sense,” a breezy, radio-ready collaboration with the singer Max. Louis the Child have always had a knack for pop hooks, best demonstrated by their co-writing credits on the Chainsmokers and …

Justin Bieber took to the streets of London to serenade his fiancée Hailey Baldwin. Fans caught the pop star busking at the fountain outside Buckingham Palace as Baldwin looked on this week. The young couple had been sightseeing in London when they made a stop at the Palace. Bieber proceeded …

Jacquees, the spark-plug R&B singer signed to Cash Money Records, released his debut album 4275 earlier this year. It was full of great singing, but not always great songs. He’s been fixing that problem recently by remixing already-proven hits by other artists. He started by releasing his own version of …

Lars Ulrich knows Metallica’s reputation. “Back in the day there was a lot made about Metallica and ‘Alcoholica’ and all of our drinking habits,” he says. “But we didn’t have any money to drink anything other than white-label shitty beer and vodka. It wasn’t until we got to L.A. to …

With AmericanaFest in full swing throughout Music City, there are plenty of scheduled, publicized events to try and catch throughout the day and well into the night. But Margo Price caught many by surprise at sunset on Thursday with an empowering rooftop performance at her label Third Man Records. Along …

The only time I ever caught Rachid Taha live, at the Lincoln Center Arts Festival in 2002, I told my diary that the French-Algerian singer reminded me of another brazen rock usurper: Pink. An impiously cocky little troublemaker sporting a full panoply of grand gestures to go with his vinyl …

Kelela‘s “LMK” gets a star-studded remix treatment with help from CupcakKe, Princess, Nokia and Ms. Boogie. Kelela is readying a remix album of her 2017 full-length Take Me Apart, which arrives on October 5th. Titled “LMK_What’s Really Good Remix” strips down the beat a little bit and accents Kelela’s gorgeous vocals …

CMA-nominated performer Brett Young will look back to his home state for his second album, Ticket to L.A., arriving via Big Machine Label Group on December 7th. Ticket to L.A. reunites Young, a native of Southern California, with that album’s producer Dann Huff, along with engineer Justin Niebank and executive …

Just to get onstage, Florence Welch has to induce herself into what she calls a “trance state.” She listens to whatever music she’s been loving lately and simply zones out. Her playlist lately — as she’s been readying herself for months of twirling dervish performances on Florence and the Machine‘s …