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He’s no stranger to love — or quality Nineties rock. Rick Astley, best known as the voice of 1987 dance-pop hit “Never Gonna Give You Up,” added a soulful spin to Foo Fighters‘ “Everlong” in a solo acoustic cover. “Sometimes you just have to find a song that’s gonna lift …

Tom Petty’s family decried Donald Trump’s use of “I Won’t Back Down” at his Tulsa rally Saturday, sending a cease-and-desist notice to the president’s campaign. “Trump was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind,” Petty’s estate …

Stephen Colbert enlisted Donald Trump’s niece, Mary L. Trump, to share a handful of faux excerpts from her upcoming book about the president and his family on The Late Show’s cold open Tuesday. While Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough, is being touted as an explosive tell-all, the …

One Los Angeles evening in 1975, Neil Young gathered a few friends together at the Chateau Marmont to play them some music. He had two new albums in the can, and wasn’t sure which one to release. Sitting inside the same bungalow that John Belushi would die in just seven …

Following an ultimatum from President Trump to “take back your city” or “I will,” Seattle’s mayor told the president to go away. On Wednesday night, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan quote tweeted Trump, writing, “Make us all safe. Go back to your bunker,” and added the hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter. The mayor was …

Over the last week, N.W.A‘s fierce indictment of racial injustice, “Fuck tha Police,” has become the anthem of a revolution, as thousands all over the world have taken to the streets in outrage over the wrongful killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Protesters have scrawled the …

With eight musicians in their current touring incarnation — bagpiper very much included — Boston roots-punk gods the Dropkick Murphys are one of the only bands who practically qualify as a mass gathering in their own right. But with their Streaming Outta Fenway show Friday night, they managed to put …

One hundred thousand people are dead. There is no effective federal plan to control a pandemic for which there remains no cure, nor help the nation recover from it. President Trump is engaged in a daily exercise in willful failure, ridding his government of inspectors general and obfuscating his own …

Singer-songwriter Richard Marx delivered quick set of classic tracks from his home in Malibu, California, in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s In My Room, a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine. Before getting to the music, though, Marx shared a quick word of thanks for …

Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires aren’t used to playing empty rooms. “This is a lot like all the CD release shows we did before Southeastern came out,” Isbell deadpanned on Friday evening, speaking to a bare-boned crowd of cameramen and sound engineers scattered throughout the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville. Isbell’s …