Jay-Z's really getting out there in 2026. A day after revealing he'd perform with the Roots as the headliner of their annual Roots Picnic this May, the rap mogul has announced a pair of concerts at Yankee Stadium this summer. The post Jay-Z Announces... more info

Tom Jenkinson, the IDM veteran and scarf guy known as Squarepusher, is preparing to unleash his new album Kammerkonzert upon an unsuspecting world. He's billing it as his first foray into orchestral music. We posted the lead single "K2 Central," and ... more info

Willie Nelson simply does not stop. After sharing a new collab with Lawnmower Man actor Jeff Fahey back in January, today the 92-year-old country music icon announced his 156th album, Dream Chaser, and shared its title track. But there's another song... more info

Sombr had the unique honr of performing in Dublin just one day before St. Patrick's Day. To celebrate, the Gen Z pop star brought out Mike and Noel Hogan, members of the Gen Z -beloved Cranberries. With the Hogans on guitar and bass, Sombr — decked... more info

For a while now, Madonna has been teasing Confessions On A Dance Floor 2 — the sequel to her 2005 album — and buzz around it has only increased since caught her apparently filming a big scale music video earlier this month. Meanwhile William Orbi... more info

The LA-based artist Kelsey Lu, a classically trained cellist with a tremendous sense of vision, released her debut album Blood back in 2019. Since then, she’s scored a couple of films and collaborated with people like Yves Tumor, Mykki Blanco, and ... more info

Thursday might've prayed, prayed every single day, to avoid any situation where they'd have to cover the 4 Non Blondes song "What's Up," but those prayers did not come true. The music lessons app Musora has a video series where they challenge bands t... more info

Zoh Amba came to underground prominence as a free jazz saxophonist, serving up illuminating skronk that appealed to an experimental rock audience as much if not more than the jazz scene. They also cracked our list of the best new artists of 2022. So ... more info

About eight years ago, Jack Harlow trolled the fuck out of me. Or, at least, it felt like he did. Visiting XXL’s midtown Manhattan office for a video freestyle, pre-glow-up Jack — glasses, unwieldy curly hair and all — sat down in our video ro... more info

In 1996, the Butthole Surfers hit the big time. For years, they’d been known as the biggest freaks on the American underground rock circuit, and this was during a time when the American underground rock circuit was not exactly light on freaks. (The... more info