Music

Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers provided counterprogramming of sorts to their joint Austin City Limits episode Saturday as the two singers held a conversation over Instagram Live. Both singers made their Austin City Limits debut for the Dec. 4 episode, filmed during their October visits to the Moody Theatre; as Rodrigo told Bridgers during their conversation, the ACL set was the first time she’d ever been to Austin. While Rodrigo has staged a handful of concerts and festival performances following the release of her debut LP Sour — Number One...

Lainey Wilson, Granger Smith and Chase Rice come together for a windows-down good time on "Beer Song," the newest song to come out off of the upcoming Hardy-curated Hixtape: Vol 2.With a premise as simple and time-tested as its title, "Beer Song" celebrates the power of a cold beer to bring back memories of good times with good friends -- or to make new ones."I got a song for my people on back home / And when I'm missin' them I turn it up," the three sing in the chorus....

Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin delivered a xylophone-and-kazoo-heavy rendition of Billy Joel’s “Big Shot” to mark the sixth night of their Hanukkah Sessions 2021. The Foo Fighters frontman said of the cover, “While he claims a secular Long Island upbringing (and has songs full of Catholic and Italian imagery), Billy Joel remains one of the great Jews of musical scripture—here’s his ultimate ode to a true Macher: ‘Big Shot!’” Grohl and Kurstin’s Hanukkah Sessions find the rocker and producer celebrating Jewish artists; 2021 marks the second time the duo have...

Stonewall Jackson — the Grand Ole Opry's most senior member — has died. Jackson notched hit songs in three different decades and was a familiar face at the Opry for over 50 years. "Waterloo" and "B.J. the D.J." were his two No. 1 hits but he placed 11 songs inside the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.The 89-year-old was a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 65 years, making him the most tenured member until his death on Saturday (Dec. 4). He joined the Opry on Nov. 3,...

Tom Petty will receive a posthumous doctoral degree in music from the University of Florida after the school’s board of trustees voted unanimously to honor the late rocker Friday. While the Heartbreakers frontman never attended the University of Florida, he was born and raised in Gainesville — where the school is located — and worked as a groundskeeper at the university prior to hitting rock stardom, the Associated Press reports; Petty’s pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch also frequently played the Gainesville area in the early-Seventies before relocating to Los Angeles and morphing...

Bill Anderson is the subject of a new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and a number of his celebrity friends and fans were on hand to help launch the exhibit at a special event in downtown Nashville on Thursday night (Dec. 2).Titled Bill Anderson: As Far as I Can See, the new exhibit traces Anderson's life and career from his early years in Georgia, where he got his start as a baseball pitcher and sportswriter in high school, through his college stint as a disc...

Le Tigre are reuniting in 2022 for Goldenvoice’s newest festival, This Ain’t No Picnic, running Aug. 27 through 28 at California’s Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The fest lineup also includes the Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, Courtney Barnett, Caroline Polachek, Honey Dijon, Four Tet x Floating Points for a combined DJ set, Yves Tumor, Descendents, Wet Leg, Genesis Owusu, Turnstile, Hana Vu, Grammy-nominated (Best New Artist) musician Arooj Aftab, and more. Tickets go on sale on Dec. 9. The Nineties electro-rock band — which comprises Kathleen...

Love's four seasons are the star of Thomas Rhett's vibrant new music video for "Slow Down Summer." The action follows a young couple, living carefree until cooler weather crests over the horizon.Colorful scenes of summer and fall are contrasted with the dead of winter during this music video, directed by P. Tracy. Rhett spends his time at a piano as the weather around him shifts from an idyllic spring or summer green to autumn's oranges and reds and finally, winter's white. He's dressed appropriately for each, and the picture-book feel to his sequences complement the...

A group of school children get in the Christmas spirit by putting on an ABBA special in the Swedish group’s new video for “Little Things,” off their recent album Voyage. The children’s special is a take on the digital concerts ABBA will perform in London next year, complete with motion capture, choreography, rehearsals, and more. The band will donate all proceeds to Unicef, similar to “Chiquitita,” when they donated half the funds to the organization in 1979. “We think it is impossible to eradicate poverty without the empowerment of women,”...

Ever since Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani first became an item, their relationship has left some fans scratching their heads: At first glance, the pair don't seem to have all that much in common.Stefani comes from the pop world, and when they first met on the set of The Voice, she didn't even know who Shelton — a country superstar — was.But this couple always had some common ground (they both went through high-profile divorces around the same time), but their connection is more evident than ever when you examine their childhood photos...

The National have released a new song, “Somebody Desperate.” The track appears over the closing credits of the upcoming Peter Dinklage musical film Cyrano. Listen here. The film, directed by Joe Wright, is an adaptation of a stage musical written by Dinklage’s wife Erica Schmidt. The music for both the play and the movie was composed by the National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner, with lyrics by frontman Matt Berninger and his wife Carin Besser. “Somebody Desperate” was initially written for one of the characters, but got put on the back burner...

Just three weeks after the release of Macon, Jason Aldean has dropped "Whiskey Me Away," the first track off Georgia, the second half of his Macon, Georgia double album.Written by country top-seller Morgan Wallen alongside Rodney Clawson, Jeff Hyde and Drive Williams, Aldean’s new song recounts an unexpected budding romance after the protagonist makes a happenstance turn into a "long-lost highway town." He and his new love interest end up getting boozed up, but enjoying every fleeting moment they have together.“Throwing quarters down that jukebox / Play some old-school Alabama / You...

Late Chicago rapper Juice WRLD is the subject of new documentary Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss, which arrives via HBO and HBO Max as part of its Music Box Series on Dec. 16. In the new trailer, Juice WRLD asks an exuberant crowd to make some noise, crowd surfs at a festival, and mingles with fans as “Black & White” plays. While on the surface, the limelight looks appealing, behind the scenes he shares that things aren’t always as they appear. “When you a fan of this shit, you look...