Music

Taylor Swift joined her Cats costars Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, James Corden and Francesca Hayward to perform a special rendition of the Cats classic “Memory” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday. Backed by the Roots and with host Fallon accompanying the group to sing and perform, the …

The Michael Jackson estate has settled its copyright lawsuit with Disney over the TV special The Last Days of Michael Jackson, which aired on ABC in 2018 and, according to the estate, used Jackson’s image and music without permission. “The matter was amicably resolved,” a rep from the Jackson estate …

A few weeks back, a Comcast commercial disguised as an E.T. reunion hit the web, showing the lovable alien returning to earth to reunite with a now-adult Elliott (played by original actor Henry Thomas) and his kids. The reason for his return journey is never quite made clear, but he …

The recent announcement of the upcoming Mötley Crüe/Poison/Def Leppard tour inspired pangs of hair-metal nostalgia among a certain generation. But there’s another, perhaps more important reason to celebrate the news: It marks yet another moment in the return of the umlaut, one of rock’s most wonderfully deranged obsessions. Sticking two …

On December 7th, 2010, about 60 lucky Bruce Springsteen fans crammed into the Carousel House on the Asbury Park boardwalk to watch a special live concert of songs from the new Darkness on the Edge of Town box set The Promise. It was the last time Springsteen would play with …

Reggae and punk icon Don Letts reminisces about the emergence of Jamaican music in the U.K. in a clip from the documentary Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records. Following a year on the film festival circuit, the film is now available on digital streaming services. “Black and white kids were …

During an appearance on The Late Late Show, Billie Eilish performed a version of her song “Ocean Eyes” with Alicia Keys, who was filling in for James Corden as host. Keys swapped the host desk for a piano and the pair gave an intimate rendition of the tune. In the …

The Flaming Lips have announced a short tour that will find the band playing a string of intimate theater shows on the West Coast next spring. The run starts with two April shows — April 14th at the Fox Theatre in Spokane, Washington, and April 15th at the Wilma in …

“You gotta let your heart land,” sings Hailey Whitters on “Heartland,” a potent track about leaving behind the expectations of where you come from in favor of chasing a difficult dream. For Whitters, that meant moving out of her home state of Iowa and heading to Nashville to make it …

UPDATE: Faith No More have extended their 2020 European tour with headlining dates in the U.K. and festival sets in France, Finland and Spain. The U.K. run kicks off June 10th in Manchester then continues with shows in Glasgow (June 11th), Birmingham (June 15th) and London (June 16th). The band …