Gary Jules, courtesy You can call it a comeback, if you want. After all, Gary Jules has been gone. Twenty years ago, Jules scored a hit with a haunting cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World,” recorded with friend Michael Andrews. Now he’s back with a 20th anniversary edition…

Darker Waves festival in Huntington Beach, Calif. on Nov. 18, 2023. Courtesy. HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — The inaugural Darker Waves turned out to be totally tubular, as thousands of fans – who still deeply love the ‘80s – turned out to see Tears for Fears, New Order, Human League…

The best albums of 2022 include Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Banks, Sondre Lerche, Ghost, The Black Keys, Alice Merton, Omar Apollo, Coheed and Cambria, Pusha T, Tears for Fears, Nova Twins and Florence and the Machine. After poring over hundreds of our own album reviews and hundreds more albums…

Tears for Fears perform at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on June 2, 2022. Gary Chancer/STAFF. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Tears for Fears brought their tour in support of their latest album, The Tipping Point, to Shoreline Amphitheatre on Thursday for the second of two shows in the Bay Area. …

Tears For Fears, “The Tipping Point.” Seventeen years is a long time to wait between albums, but Tears for Fears have never been a band that did things the usual way. After gaining fame as a new wave synth band in the ’80s, they pivoted to a more organic…

Clockwise from top right: Olivia Rodrigo, Shawn Mendes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Stapleton, The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, HAIM, Roger Waters, Tyler, The Creator, Billie Eilish, Lorde and John Mayer. After the pandemic canceled concerts in 2020, we crossed out fingers that our favorites would be rescheduled. Slowly, they’re…

Row 1: Charli XCX, Camila Cabello, The Weeknd, Khalid, Weezer. Row 2: Janet Jackson, Vince Staples, SPOON, GZA, Sky Ferreira, Row 3: Meg Myers, Rina Sawayama, Eddie Vedder, Black Country, New Road, and My Bloody Valentine. Row 4: Elvis Costello, BROCKHAMPTON, Alt-J, Avril Lavigne, Lykke Li. Not pictured: The…

Hey baby, you look a little pale. The year 1985 was a momentous year in music: It marked the release of Night Rocker, David Hasselhoff’s debut album. It also marked the release of basically every song they played on VH-1 in the ’90s, which makes sense since VH-1 first went…