Music

Musicians and artists from the diverse music scene in Louisville, Kentucky, have collaborated on a charity single, “Lift Up Louisville,” to raise money for the city’s COVID-19 response fund. Recorded remotely in the midst of quarantine, the song and its accompanying video feature dozens of local Louisville acts including Jim …

Dierks Bentley knows it’s a weird time to be promoting things that are funny and ridiculous, what with the ongoing stress and loss associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. But maybe, he argues, funny and ridiculous things can be a welcome respite. “This interview popped up and I was like, ‘Is …

Beyoncé‘s BeyGOOD Foundation has announced a new initiative to provide relief and assistance to essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. BeyGOOD partnered with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Start Small fund and will provide $6 million to various organizations. “In our major cities, African-Americans comprise a disproportionate number of workers in …

Mark Lanegan composed his upcoming album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, as a companion piece to his gritty memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, which chronicles his drug use and time in Screaming Trees in the Eighties and Nineties. Wednesday, he dropped “Stockholm City Blues,” which finds him looking back regretfully on …

Willie Nelson, country’s patron saint of marijuana, hosts a livestreamed variety show dubbed “Come and Toke It” on April 20th, or 4/20, the unofficial weed holiday. The stoner special, Nelson’s fourth installment in his self-isolation Luck Reunion livestreams, will feature musical guests, comedians, chefs, and cannabis experts “all from the …

In a defiant spoken-word recording, Eric Church celebrates the human spirit and promises that the coronavirus pandemic will be defeated, while also hinting at a new song on the horizon, “Through My Ray Bans.” “Where there once were roars, now there are just echoes. The handshakes and the hugs of …

GLAAD has announced Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone, a special livestream event to be broadcast Sunday, April 26th, at 8 p.m. ET on the organization’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. The event will highlight the LGBTQ community’s response to COVID-19 and feature a star-studded lineup of guests including …

Cardi B invited Sen. Bernie Sanders to join her on Instagram Live for a discussion about the coronavirus pandemic and voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Sanders suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week and endorsed Biden on Monday. Cardi B and Sanders’ conversation was simultaneously …

Laura Marling‘s new album ends with a lullaby: “For You,” a sparsely strummed ballad with a harmonizing light-gospel quartet, neatly sums up the gentle folkiness of Marling’s new album, Song for Our Daughter, which arrives three years after her off-kilter roots experimentation with Blake Mills on 2017’s Semper Femina. “For …

Dolly Parton surprised fans on Monday with the digital release of six albums previously unavailable on streaming. “Surprise! 93 of your favorite classics are finally available again online!” Parton wrote on Twitter. “I hope these songs bring some light into your life during these hard times.” The LPs newly available …