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Fresh off appearing on Taylor Swift’s Folklore, Bon Iver has shared a new track titled “AUATC,” Justin Vernon’s second new song of 2020. The track — short for “Ate Up All Their Cake” — was co-written by Vernon and Phil Cook and features vocal contributions from Jenny Lewis, Jenn Wasner …

Washed Out has released “Paralyzed,” the third single from his upcoming albumPurple Noon. The song is accompanied by a tastefully NSFW video by director Caroline Koning, shot in her native Holland and starring real-life couple Shay and Dorien. On her inspiration for the video, Koning said: “Human contact, and something …

In 2010, I went to see Peter Wolf play an intimate set at Portland, Maine’s Port City Music Hall. At the time, I’d gotten deep into Wolf’s catalog after hearing J. Geils Band’s Houseparty album, and the frontman delivered, playing a wild set full of hits like “Homework” and “Love …

Lou Reed‘s 1989 album New York will be given its first remastering in a massive deluxe edition by Rhino, out September 25th (pre-order here). New York: Deluxe Edition includes three CDs, a two-LP set and a DVD, encased in a hardcover book with liner notes by David Fricke and essays …

Ziggy Marley has shared a new song, “Play With Sky,” off his newly announced album More Family Time, out September 18th. “Play With Sky” is an upbeat, cheerful duet that features Ben Harper. “I’m going to outside, gonna play with the sky,” Marley sings in the opening lines. “Running wild/Play …

Motörhead’s commercial breakthrough, Ace of Spades, will be the subject of a massive reissue this fall with two previously unreleased live albums and a clutch of alternate versions of the album’s songs. The group is previewing the collection with a previously unheard, gritty live version of the ripping title track …

Lauren Isenberg, known to the world as Renforshort, had just come back home to Toronto from a tour in Europe a week before the coronavirus pandemic put her city on lockdown. “I went back to school for a week, and a lot of my close friends don’t go to my …

The Sun Ra Arkestra will revisit some of the late jazz legend’s classic compositions on the outfit’s new album Swirling, their first studio LP in over 20 years. Under the direction of bandleader Marshall Allen, the Arkestra convened in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Soundworks to record new arrangements for Sun Ra standards …

Metallica’s second go-round with the San Francisco Symphony will feature on an upcoming live album and concert film documenting the band’s S&M2 shows. Recorded September 6th and 8th, 2019, at San Francisco’s Chase Center — the first-ever concerts at that new arena — the gigs found Metallica collaborating with the …