The Mountain Goats, Rosalía, Mavis Staples, and several more will all release new work during the first weekend of November.

At 86, Mavis Staples is still a force of nature. Her new album Sad And Beautiful World arrives 7 November, featuring Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt and Jeff Tweedy — a powerful testament to her seven-decade ...

If we had the ability to assess who is the most beloved figure in music — not in overall numbers, but sheer adoration, per capita and per peer — it likely wouldn’t be Taylor or Beyoncé but Mavis ...

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, photo by Malia James. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have announced a pair of ...

Lucinda Williams will return on 23 January 2026 with World’s Gone Wrong, her powerful new album featuring Mavis Staples, Norah Jones and Brittney Spencer.

Bob Dylan has sparred with champion boxers and has his own gym, but that does little to impress Mavis Staples. She and Dylan used to date — he even wanted to marry her — and they toured together in ...

Having sought out the punk-rock icon, he introduced himself and said, “Hi Patti, I was told that you might want me to help you out?” To which she handed him her guitar and said, “Tune this”.

A crop of artists on the verge of what’s next are returning with new releases, and Taylor Swift is reuniting with some of her poppiest collaborators. By Elena Bergeron, Caryn Ganz, Olivia Horn, Jon ...

Mavis Staples remembers. In her new children’s book, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, she reaches back to when her father determined the type of music that was permissible to play ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Pop music has reached a cross-generational ...