Music

Karen O and Danger Mouse want you to listen like they do on ‘Lux Prima’

Karen O had to shout to be heard over her own voice. Seated in a lounge at George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound complex, the singer best known for fronting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was discussing her collaboration with the producer Danger Mouse, which encompasses a surprising new album.

20 Mar 2019

'Afghan American Idol' won by a woman for the first time

Zahra Elham, from Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority, snatched first place from her male runner-up on Afghan Star — a local version of American Idol.

23 Mar 2019

Watch how a mix of global music at Dubai Metro enthrals the city

The Dubai Metro Music Festival is being held from 17-23 March at five Dubai Metro stations

22 Mar 2019

A rough journey to new music for Jenny Lewis

Life hasn’t been easy for singer Jenny Lewis since the sunnier days when she performed in support of a 2014 album while wearing a rainbow-hued pantsuit and carrying a guitar with similar bright colours.

20 Mar 2019

Avril Lavigne’s search for musical identity continues

Avril Lavigne has suffered from a few identity crises over the years. There was the literal one, of course — a semi-serious internet conspiracy insisting that she had died and been secretly replaced by a body double.

20 Mar 2019

Is Justin Timberlake nearing irrelevancy?

Justin Timberlake’s world tour behind his lukewarm album ‘Man of the Woods’ is tainted by the pop star’s anxiety and fatigue

20 Mar 2019

Irish musician Hozier discusses his second album and controversial dancer Sergei Polunin

Hozier is back with a second record nearly five years after the giant success of ‘Take Me to Church,’ and has much to say about the dancer from the song's viral music video.

19 Mar 2019

You are making Canada proud: Trudeau to Lilly Singh

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulated Canadian-born Lilly Singh, who goes by the stage name Superwoman, on bagging a late night show of a major TV network and said the YouTube sensation is making Canada proud.

18 Mar 2019

Roger Daltrey, Townshend set for full throttle tour, album

Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend, now in their 70s, will take the stage in May as part of The Who's current six-member lineup and backed by an orchestra to play venues in the United States and Canada as well as London's Wembley Stadium in July.

18 Mar 2019

Retired musicians enjoy ‘grand finale’ at Verdi home

Nearly 120 years after Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi called it his “most beautiful work,” ageing musicians still play out their days at his Casa Verdi retirement home.

18 Mar 2019

Did anybody want to be at the iHeartRadio Music Awards?

By this point it’s an established part of Kacey Musgraves lore that the success of her “Golden Hour” — which last month won the coveted album of the year prize at the Grammy Awards — has come without much help from country radio. But that wasn’t the narrative laid out at Thursday night’s iHeartRadio Music Awards, where Bebe Rexha introduced Musgraves’ performance

17 Mar 2019