When Blake Shelton released his No.1 hit "Boys 'Round Here" back in 2013, one of the singers on the track, RaeLynn, had no clue she was supposed to get royalties from the record. But when they finally ...

The night before I met Tobias Jesso Jr., he was backstage at Saturday Night Live, supporting the British soul upstart Olivia Dean, who was performing her breakthrough hit “Man I Need,” which Jesso ...

To get it out of the way: Yes, Tobias Jesso Jr. has heard about gooning. “Somebody put me up on it and said it was about masturbation?” says the 40-year-old singer and songwriter, which is about ...

"There's no tricks," Tobias Jesso Jr. says of his stripped-down new album. "It's me singing a take, and it's the best take I got." (Ian Spanier / For The Times) To get it out of the way: Yes, Tobias ...

Blake Shelton played his new song "Stay Country or Die Tryin'" off his recently released "For Recreational Use Only" album at the American Music Awards. The 48-year-old country star wore a red, white ...

When listeners were first introduced to Tobias Jesso Jr. in 2015, he was at his lowest. The Canadian singer-songwriter, then 30 years old, had just gone through a breakup and learned about his ...

For much of pop-music history, singing and songwriting were considered separate jobs. Music publishing houses that were clustered in places like New York’s Tin Pan Alley and Nashville’s Music Row ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

It doesn’t end with Justin Baldoni’s request. Three weeks after the actor filed a motion to dismiss Blake Lively’s lawsuit against him, his “It Ends With Us” co-star insisted she deserves her “day in ...