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For the title cut of Stoughton, Massachusetts-based Lori McKenna‘s forthcoming album The Balladeer, the Grammy-winning songwriter behind “Girl Crush” veers away from her usual autobiographical material for a fictional peek into the world of a musician who “hangs in the darkest bars with downtrodden bleeding-hearts.” It’s there she encounters a …

Shamir has announced that he will release a self-titled album on October 2nd and has shared a second single from the record, following the quarantine-themed track “On My Own.” The new song, “I Wonder,” comes with a visual inspired by love, climate change and the work of Keith Haring, according …

James Bay is no stranger to sappy love songs, but something about his latest release, “Chew On My Heart,” hits a little differently. With his first new release of 2020, the singer-songwriter gravitates away from his usual distant longing and jumps right into infatuation. The track starts off subtle, but …

UPDATE: On Monday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged four people, two men and two teenagers, with killing the rapper Pop Smoke. The two men, Corey Walker and Keandre Rodgers, were charged with murder during a robbery and burglary, which makes them eligible for the death penalty, or …

Joe Ely has seen some shit. As a solo artist, member of the Flatlanders, and even as an employee of the circus, the country-rock raconteur has spent a lifetime on the road. He was conscripted by Ringling Bros. in the early Seventies, showed the Clash around his native Texas in …

Charlie Puth performed intimate, stripped-down renditions of his songs in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s ‘In My Room,’ a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine. “I’m gonna perform them the way that I originally thought of them,” Puth tells the camera. “Not a whole lot …

Diplo line dances in the desert throughout his playful “Do Si Do” video. The harmonica-heavy track appears on the producer’s recently issued country LP, Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil. Frequent Diplo collaborator Brandon Dermer directed the clip, which also features vocalist Blanco Brown and a guest dancer. …

If Bob Dylan had gotten his way, the Band’s Robbie Robertson would have played on his just-released album Rough and Rowdy Ways, the guitarist says – which would’ve been Robertson’s first performance on a Dylan studio LP since he and the rest of the Band played on 1974’s Planet Waves. …

Members of the original cast of Hamilton, along with the Roots, staged a virtual reunion to perform the musical’s “Helpless” as part of Global Citizen’s “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future” live stream event Saturday. The performance featured actress Phillipa Soo reprising her Tony-nominated role of Eliza Hamilton, with the …

MTV is taking a rare break from Ridiculousness and Teen Mom OG marathons on Friday for something they are calling “Flashback Friday: Made in New York.” It’s a 24-hour block of classic Nineties programming like The Real World: New York, Yo! MTV Raps, The State, Diary: Pink, and the Pearl …