Ten years ago, George W. Bush signed into law the Troubled Asset Relief Program, better known as the TARP bailout. The rescue forked over $700 billion of taxpayer money to bail out giant Wall Street banks that were already too big, and were about to get bigger. On Wednesday, Sen. …

“It’s cool being in here,” the Struts‘ wild-haired frontman, Luke Spiller, says as he reclines his seat in the spacious back of a 2019 Rolls-Royce Phantom. The roof’s leather interior is speckled with 1,420 fiber-optic lights that resemble a constellation, there’s a bottle-sized fridge between the seats for chilling beverages …

Nick Cave has always been a different beast on stage than in in the studio — he paces the stage lithely in his black leisure suit and locks his piercing eyes with any fan who dares look his way. He seems unpredictable and electric as he and his cadre of …

It’s hard to pinpoint who exactly invented the blast beat, the relentless, piston-like rhythm that defines grindcore, death metal and related underground styles. Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris apparently coined the term and executed the technique to primitive perfection on that band’s 1986 debut, Scum. But in a 2005 interview, …

Willie Nelson may have been the marquee name at the “Rally With Willie & Beto” in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, but the rock star of the night was the candidate himself, Beto O’Rourke. The onetime punk musician and Democratic Texas Senate candidate had just given a stirring speech to the …

EDITORS’ PICK: Jlin, Autobiography “America’s most acclaimed new electronic composer scores a piece by choreographer Wayne McGregor with her cutting-edge synthetic textures and brain-blendering pinball beats,” writes Christopher R. Weingarten. “Allowed to stretch, she explores a dripping, hard-panning, evocative ambient music made of bamboo clanks, tubular bells, ticking clocks, birds, …

Gucci Mane has announced a North American fall tour. Dubbed ‘The Unusual Suspects Tour,’ he will hit the road beginning in November with co-headliner Carnage and opener Smokepurpp. The 12-date trek kicks off on November 7th at Myth Live in St. Paul, Minnesota and winds its way through the Midwest …

If last week’s Artist-in-Residence performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum was all about highlighting Miranda Lambert‘s considerable skill as a songwriter, last night’s follow-up show made the case that she’s an equally compelling bandleader when joined with her Pistol Annies cohorts Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. …

Adobe Analytics Cloud — a set of analytics tools used by large media companies including Spotify, Pandora, Time Warner, Viacom and CBS Interactive — launched a spate of new features Tuesday for its clients to gather an unprecedented amount of information from users’ audio-streaming habits. These metrics include meticulous streaming …

New research shows that MDMA, the chemical compound found in the street drug ecstasy, may help adults with autism cope with the social anxiety often associated with the disorder. Charles Grob, M.D., and Alicia Danforth, Ph.D., researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, gave either …