In April, Metallica are releasing their first studio album in seven years, 72 Seasons, so named to represent “the first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves,” as James Hetfield explained back when the album was announced. The band has shared two songs from it so far, “Lux Æterna” and &...

Shania Twain needs no introduction. With 1997 third album ‘Come On Over’ – still the best-selling album by a female solo artist ever – she became a global superstar and the undisputed queen of country-pop. By blurring the lines between country and pop, Twain set a template for genre-straddling Nashville musicians who foll...

Last month, we found out that the Madonna-directed biopic about Madonna had been scrapped in favor of Madonna’s international greatest hits tour, even after Julia Garner was seemingly cast in the lead role. The list of people asked to audition to play Madonna was long — rumors flew during casting that Sydney Sweeney, Alexa De...

Forty years ago today, on February 22, 1983, the Flaming Lips performed their very first show at Oklahoma City’s Blue Note Lounge. But if you could take a time machine back to that moment, chances are, you wouldn’t recognize the band onstage. None of the qualities we now associate with this band — the kaleidoscopic pop anth...

Here's why playing with Bruce Springsteen is just as demanding as playing for Slipknot, according to the only man to have played with both