Jon Regen's latest album Higher Ground bridges the digital gig economy, with a little help from fellow musicians.

Rocketman opened at the Cannes Film Festival this week: it’s a glorious song-and-dance extravaganza interspersed with fantasy and heartbreak, but it’s not en...

How the Kentucky duo is using social activism and interfaith messaging to forge a new path for independent rock on its latest album Of Water + Mercy It almos...

The four-hour broadcast silenced political division with dynamic performances by three generations of women and proved ‘less dancing, more singing’ can be a w...

The 63-year-old singer’s dedication to amplifying women’s voices is evident in ten new songs with atmospheric, country-gothic textures.

Female songwriters topped publications’ year-end music polls, but few lists captured the gamut of their ages, genres, and talents. From the #MeToo movement t...

The singer (and part-time Atlantan) paved the way for generations of activists determined to eradicate AIDS for good.

Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic named after one of the British rock group’s most famous songs, opened in theaters two weeks ago. The movie’s re-enactment...

Simple Minds’ latest album, Walk Between Worlds, pierced the Top 5 on the Official U.K. Album Charts earlier this year, and the band is receiving rave review...

Paul Weller is consistently one of the most listenable artists of the past forty years, and his latest album is spot-on. The former Jam and Style Council fro...

He may like his toast done on one side, but Sting’s new tour with Shaggy is crispy all the way around. At Atlanta’s Tabernacle Monday night, the unlikely pai...

From the July 9 2018 issueof The Economist magazine: FLORENCE WELCH has made her name both as a hitmaker and as a kind of strong-willed sprite. Her belting a...

From the June 2018 issue of Keyboard magazine: One of the joys of 21st century life is opening a digital music library and discovering an artist’s full body ...

U2’s intersections with Atlanta over the years have gone beyond the city as a requisite tour stop.

ROD ARGENT AND COLIN BLUNSTONE began making music as The Zombies eleven years before I was born. By the time I was riding around in my parents’ Chevrolet Cap...

Petula Clark’s 1964 song, “Downtown,” burnished modern urban life into a smash hit. In 2017, she’s back at age 85 with new music and lots of stories. How inc...

For my 2017 list of the Top 50 Best Songs and Top 20 Best Albums, I let my stats on Spotify, YouTube, and Shazam–plus my vinyl purchases–guide me to the song...

When music critics focus on confirming or denying the band’s place in music history, they miss the real story of Songs of Experience. I wrote about 2014’s mi...