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Despite the country music industry’s swift withdrawal of support for Morgan Wallen after a video of him surfaced Tuesday night using a racial slur — a breakneck fall from grace that has included much of the radio industry pulling his songs from airwaves, his contract with Big Loud Records being …

Alice Cooper celebrated his 73rd birthday on February 4th with the new single “Social Debris,” from his upcoming album Detroit Stories, out February 26th. The video features an aerial view of the dilapidated buildings of Detroit with Cooper’s face strewn across them. “Their eyes are everywhere/I see them spying there,” …

It’s been nearly a year since Covid-19 essentially shut down concert tours — the financial backbone of most working musicians – in the United States and beyond. As a result, thousands of musicians and touring professionals, many of whom work as nonunion independent contractors, are still out of work and …

Bomba Estéreo released three tracks on Tuesday in anticipation of Deja, the Colombian group’s first new full-length since 2017’s Ayo. The upcoming album’s title track is a crunching, chirping highlight among the three new tunes, pushing towards the dance floor with a throbbing bass line, a four-on-the-floor kick drum, and …

If you’ve been missing the claustrophobic, smoky vibe of DIY shows, Fontaines D.C.‘s performance on The Tonight Show Thursday was tailormade for you. Singer Grian Chatten wanders through a maze-like set reminiscent of a smoky club as the rest of the band appears in nooks and hallways, grinding out “A …

Lorenzo Wolff has teamed up with Bartees Strange for a cover of Judee Sill‘s “The Pearl.” The track is off Wolff’s tribute album Down Where the Valleys are Low: Another Otherworld for Judee Sill, out March 12th via StorySound Records. The Heart Food cover is accompanied by an animated video, …

In 2012, the surviving members of the Beach Boys — Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks — put aside decades of bad blood to record a new album and launch a long 50th anniversary tour that had them playing their classics at venues from New …

Billy Idol, Bret Michaels, Wynonna Judd, and the Allman Betts Band will take part in the Big Love Benefit Concert to raise funds for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. The virtual show is scheduled for Saturday, January 23rd. The benefit concert will be hosted by Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen …

Roger Waters has released a new recording and video for “The Gunner’s Dream.” The song from Pink Floyd’s 1983 album, The Final Cut, tells the story of a dying airman who dreams of a safer, better world, without war. The black-and-white visual opens on Waters playing the piano and singing …

System of a Down’s Serj Tankian has shared the new trailer for Truth to Power, a documentary that examines the singer’s role in the 2018 Armenian Revolution, as well as his history of activism. “Whatever statement I make is based on an injustice occurring somewhere that I want to rectify. …