Music stories from Noozify's own reporting.
Leon Bridges says his role on his fifth album is "to be light." Made with Jungle, Happiness Anytime delivers the grooves while its lyrics stay slight, and a flash of frustration inside "Illusion" suggests the happiness took work.
Her sixth album is named for the phase when a female mammal is in heat, it runs half an hour, and it treats being unresolved as a finished thought rather than a stage to grow out of. Released the same Friday as Miley's, on the label Tove Lo owns, it argues the opposite case.
Her tenth album is the first credited to Miley alone, the first on Atlantic, and the first made while she was content. It was written in under a year with her fiancé in the producer's chair, and the early reviews split on whether she took enough risks. The case that they are grading the wrong record.
"This mirror weighs a ton, but at least we act sudden." Paul Banks says the line came out of automatic writing and does not really mean anything. Interpol named its best-reviewed album in twenty years after it — a record about reflection and surveillance, titled by the one moment its songwriter stopped controlling his words.
For nearly three decades nobody could prove who ordered the killing of Tupac Shakur. Police had held a confession since 2009 and could not use a word of it. What convicted Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was the second confession — the one he sold to a documentary crew and a publisher.
She turned a one-room cabin on Locust Ridge into 3,000 songs, 308 million donated books, and a rare kind of American consensus. Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville.
Six years after Punisher, Bridgers returns with an album that treats memory as something recording technology can manipulate — her late father's voicemail woven into an arrangement, her own voice run through the same machines, and a surprising debt to a 1988 computer-music composition.
Sixty years ago the biggest band on Earth played a half-empty stadium and never performed again. No farewell, no reunion, no tour — and it made them permanent. The screaming, the death threats, the cracks already forming, and how close John and Paul came to walking back on stage for $3,000.
A company built entirely on asking people to put their phones away has quietly become one of live music's most in-demand vendors — and artists from Jack White to Karol G are lining up.
From heartbreak anthem to artistic renaissance—Cyrus proves she's nobody's ex anymore.