Music

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the Netherlands. No cause of death was provided. A longtime engineer at the Dutch electronics and …

Eric Idle has revealed how much money rock bands and record labels contributed to financing Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which came out in 1975. According to a tweet, Led Zeppelin contributed £31,500, Pink Floyd Music ponied up £21,000, and Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson put in £6,300 of …

Los Angeles outfit Dirty Honey have released a new song, “California Dreamin’,” from their upcoming self-titled debut album, out April 23rd. The song is a big riff rocker that finds singer Marc LaBelle exploring the darker, more turbulent elements that lurk beneath the promises of the Golden State: “I’m California …

Mitski has written and recorded the score for This Is Where We Fall, an upcoming science-fiction graphic novel by Chris Miskiewicz and Vincent Kings. The soundtrack marks her first full album of material since her 2018 LP Be the Cowboy, and on Friday she shared a song from it titled …

For this year’s annualWomen Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers. Here, Angel Olsen shares why she’s always telling people to listen to more of R&B/disco/roots veteran Candi Staton‘s music. …

Bunny Wailer, a founding member of the Wailers and a reggae music giant whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 73. Wailer’s manager, Maxine Stowe, confirmed that Wailer died on Tuesday at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica (via the Jamaica Observer). No cause of …

Taylor Swift called out Netflix and its new showGinny & Georgia for a “deeply sexist joke” made at her expense. TheGilmore Girls-esque dramedy about a teenager and her young mom was released on the streaming platform in late February. In one episode, a character comments, “What do you care? You …

Tom Morello has been enlisted to serve as executive music producer on Netflix’s upcoming coming-of-age comedy Metal Lords. The film, directed by Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist filmmaker Peter Sollett, is about two kids who start a heavy metal band — even though they’re the only two students at their …

Fans of Daft Punk streamed the French electronic duo’s music by the millions on Monday after the group, who have pushed the boundaries of electronic music and repeatedly cast a gleeful, grooving spell on the world, announced that they were calling it quits after nearly 30 helmeted years together. Streams …

Cyndi Lauper, Sheila E., Ingrid Andress, and more will participate in the Grammys‘ Women in the Mix event, taking place on March 8th (International Women’s Day). The event will kick-off Grammy Week at 8 p.m. ET, focusing on women in the industry that include artists, producers, executives, and engineers. Classical …