Music

Lil Wayne unleashed a potent rendition of his Carter V cut “Don’t Cry” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Wednesday. The performance found Wayne tearing through the track’s brutally honest bars about life, death, success and failure: “It was dark, now the sun back/ Hit me hard, but I …

J Balvin schooled audiences nationwide Tuesday night with a live performance of his new single, “Reggaeton,” live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Jennifer Lopez and Milo Ventimiglia also appeared as guest stars. “We have the three J’s with us,” said Fallon in a teaser trailer before the show. …

Imogen Heap announced the North American leg of her 2019 Mycelia World Tour. The nine-date run launches April 28th in Miami, Florida and wraps June 8th in San Francisco, California. It will encompass both solo slots and her first dates since 2003 as part of Frou Frou, her electro-pop collaboration …

Jamaican dancehall singer Buju Banton, one of reggae‘s most popular artists before his career was curtailed by a 10-year prison sentence, was released from a federal prison Friday after serving seven years behind bars. The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Banton had been released from Georgia’s McRae Correctional Facility, …

It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment that Pink Floyd peaked as a live act, but most fans would point to the group’s 1975 Wish You Were Here tour and their 1977 In the Flesh tour. These were wildly ambitious, boundary-pushing stadium shows where they flew airplanes directly over the …

Kelly Clarkson took viewers on a rhythmic romp through her current single “Heat” on The Voice Tuesday night, turning up the feel-good temperature for an elimination night that was ultimately defined by controversy. Singing from a stage made to resemble an urban stoop and cityscape, Clarkson was flanked by a …

Rufus Wainwright performed his Poses cut “Shadows” and discussed his forays into opera during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday. The performance found Wainwright deftly leading his band through “Shadows” with his always compelling vocals. “I could be a great star/ Still I’m far from happy,” Wainwright …

Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi is one of afrobeats‘ most visible ambassadors: He’s been featured on a pair of Top Twenty hits in the U.K., worked multiple times with Major Lazer and opened tour dates for J Balvin. But despite his gift for international collaboration,one of the most affecting tracks on …

Rivers Cuomo is at his home studio in Southern California when he picks up the phone on a recent afternoon. “That’s where I am, all day, every day,” says the Weezer frontman, 48. “Always working on songs, and now computer programming, too.” The songs are for Weezer’s latest self-titled LP, …

Jack White took my phone and locked it in a bag. To be fair, it was actually Yondr, a company that specializes in phone-free experiences, like White’s homecoming concert on Tuesday night at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. But the no-technology, no-distractions edict was clearly the famously analog musician’s idea. And a …