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Dave Grohl, a Neil Peart acolyte who inducted Rush into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, penned a tribute to the drummer following news of Peart’s death Friday. “Today, the world lost a true giant in the history of rock & roll,” Grohl said in a statement …

Record executive Jason Flom is no stranger to brushing up against stardom. As a teenager, he encountered Ike and Tina Turner, Pete Townshend and Elton John in the elevator of his friend’s apartment building one night, all heading up to the penthouse for the Tommy release party. “We tried to …

Sharon Van Etten delivers a smoldering version of “Seventeen” in a preview clip from her upcoming appearance on Austin City Limits, set to air January 4th at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on PBS. Van Etten moves through the highlight from her 2019 album, Remind Me Tomorrow, with expert precision, …

Patti Smith and her daughter, Jesse Paris Smith, headed to Rockaway Beach on New Year’s Day to celebrate the release of the latter’s first solo single, “Legacies.” A simple yet haunting track, the song kicks off a new project by the younger Smith’s climate action organization Pathway to Paris, a …

Dave Riley — the bassist for the fiercely independent, influential noise-rock group Big Black — died Tuesday after a short battle with cancer. His housemate, Rachel Brown, reported the news on Facebook. He was 59. “In late August, [Riley] developed a persistent sore throat that wasn’t responsive to antibiotics,” Brown …

Amy Winehouse‘s style will be the focus of an upcoming museum exhibit and auction that will feature some of the late singer’s most iconic outfits. “Beyond Black — The Style of Amy Winehouse,” coming to the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles in January, includes the dress Winehouse wore during her …

Although it will never get the same hipster cred as Seattle grunge or the diehard fan base of Florida death metal, the New York noise-rock scene that gestated in the Reagan era is just as important to the development of today’s underground music as its Eighties contemporaries. Human Impact, a …

Kaytranada recruited Pharrell Williams and Tinashe for his upcoming second LP, Bubba, out December 13th via RCA Records. The Canadian producer previewed the album — which follows his 2016 debut, 99.9% — with the funky new song “10%,” featuring Kali Uchis. “You keep on takin’ from me, but where’s my …

Camila Cabello was Zane Lowe’s latest guest on Apple’s New Music Daily; she was in the studio to discuss her new songs, her boyfriend Shawn Mendes and an embarrassing track she wrote for Rihanna. “[I] would write when I was like 16 to instrumentals of other songs,” she said of …

Will Smith performed in Times Square to hundreds of people sleeping outdoors Saturday night in honor of the World’s Big Sleep Out, a worldwide fundraiser to end homelessness. Events in New York, London and New Delhi were just a handful of the 50 events that took place around the world …