Bruno Mars has announced that his new album, “The Romantic,” is set to release on February 27, with new music dropping this Friday. The singer teed up the album announce earlier this week by posting ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Moods don’t get the streets paved or put good cops on a beat. But the mood in Santa Fe counts for something as a ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

The band name should’ve made this obvious, but still, dang. Two months after John Lodge died “suddenly and unexpectedly” at the age of 82, the last remaining member of the Moody Blues, Justin Hayward, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Slash's grandma had the blues and rock 'n' roll is better for it. The famed Guns 'N Roses guitarist, who just dropped the blues album “Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival” on Nov. 7, was rocking and ...

"We just recorded one of the shows and we sort of mixed it and that was it," Slash told host Chuck Armstrong about the new live album. "I love the spontaneity of [it]. As a kid, when I first started ...

When Christone "Kingfish" Ingram first stopped by World Cafe in 2019, he was rightfully hailed as a guitar prodigy and the future of the blues. Well, the future has finally arrived. The Clarksdale, ...

A disarmingly trippy delight that had the band hoisting their freak flag into the warm psychedelic breeze of the times. LSD had entered the Moody Blues’ lives, bringing with it a sense of ...

The Moody Blues, a five-member band that formed in 1964 in the United Kingdom, just lost another one of their members. John Lodge — singer, bassist and songwriter for the classic rock band — passed ...