Music

Jerrod Niemann has announced plans to play a few headlining shows in 2019. The “Old Glory” singer revealed dates for a spring tour, dubbed Live in Concert: Jerrod Niemann Tallboys and Short Stories, on Tuesday. The trek launches March 15th in Kansas City, Missouri, and stretches through mid-May with several …

Judas Priest dug deep into their catalogue for the Paris kickoff concert to their European tour Sunday night, pulling out hitman diary “Killing Machine” for the first time since November 1978. Frontman Rob Halford, forever clad in studded-black leather, leans into his mic to sing the song’s lyrics about hunting …

Yebba Smith’s gospel roots bleed through her single “Evergreen,” a slow-burning ballad full of mettle and longing. It’s over a year old now, but very worth revisiting — especially as Smith gets ready to contend at the 2019 Grammy Awards for another song, her PJ Morton collaboration “How Deep Is …

Billy Joel was thirteen songs into his set at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night when he decided to reach deep into his catalog and resurrect a song that only his most devoted fans would recognize. “We’re gonna try something we’ve never played before,” he said. “This may lay like …

Edwin Birdsong, the jazz and funk keyboardist whose music has been sampled by artists like Daft Punk and Gang Starr, died Monday. He was 77. The musician’s son, Singh Birdsong, and his ex-wife, Angela Birdsong, confirmed his death on Instagram and Facebook, respectively. Birdsong was an accomplished solo artist, as …

It’s been a little over five years since Pearl Jam released an album of new material and it doesn’t seem like one is coming at any point in the immediate future. “It’d be fun to record or even just write a song together,” bassist Jeff Ament recently told Rolling Stone. …

Ja Rule criticized a pair of new documentaries about the Fyre Festival, with the rapper accusing both films of unfairly blaming him for the disastrous fest. “I love how ppl watch a doc and think they have all the answers,” Ja Rule wrote in a series of tweets Sunday, days …

It was 25 years ago when Billie Joe Armstrong first made his guitar sound like “dookie.” Now, he’s ready to (excuse the pun) dump his formula for the perfect gut-busting sound all over guitarists worldwide. Armstrong teamed up with effects company Jim Dunlop on a new guitar pedal for its …

Soulja Boy is trending, not for his video game console or a new song, but for his thoughts on Drake. During an interview with The Breakfast Club, the rapper and entrepreneur claims that he made Drake in a tirade in which he pronounces “Degrassi” as “Degeneres” and elongates the vowels …

Aaron Lee Tasjan has announced new headlining North American tour dates for spring 2019. The East Nashville-based singer-songwriter released his latest album Karma for Cheap in August 2018. This weekend, Tasjan heads to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, for the 30A Songwriters Festival, then closes out January with a run of …