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Tones and I gets into character — or 20 — for her new music video, “Ur So F**king Cool.” In the new single, the Australian singer-producer describes the various efforts people make to appear cooler than they really are — getting addicted to social media, acting extra pretentious, etc. — …

Brian Wilson has shared a gorgeous cover of the song “God Only Knows” from Crowded House frontman Neil Finn. According to Wilson, the Melbourne singer and instrumentalist first recorded vocals of himself singing the Beach Boys classic while out on a walk, and then taped a full piano version back …

Pink Floyd have been little more than a memory for the past quarter-century, and the three surviving members are now in their mid-seventies, but their ancient feud somehow lingers on. The latest battle revolves around Waters being locked out of the band’s official website and Facebook page. That means he …

Nav‘s Good Intentions swept to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The rapper released both the 18-track album and a 14-track deluxe edition three days later; all together, those 32 tracks amassed 75.3 million streams. Nav also relied on merch-album bundles to drive more than …

Ian Anderson has released a statement clarifying his diagnosis of COPD, an incurable lung disease that the Jethro Tull frontman first opened up about in an interview with Dan Rather. “Thanks for your concern but no worries about my diagnosed COPD and asthma,” he writes. “I have had 14 months …

In light of the spread of COVID-19, the Black Keys have joined the lengthy list of artists to cancel an upcoming tour. “We are very disappointed to let you know the U.S. Let’s Rock Summer tour is no longer happening,” the band said in a statement. “We were looking forward …

As if there wasn’t enough sorrow in the world right now, the news arrived Saturday morning that Little Richard died from bone cancer. The rock pioneer was 87. “A lot of people call me the architect of rock and roll,” he told Rolling Stone in 2004. “I don’t call myself …

David Byrne‘s immersive, sensory-rich theater project Theater of the Mind will now be premiering in 2021. The production was supposed to open this year at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, via its DCPA Off-Center arm, but the city’s pandemic shutdown has upended Byrne and co-creator Mala Gaonkar’s plans. …

In the month of May for the last two years, Metallica has encouraged fans to volunteer at food banks and give back to their communities for their “Day of Service,” organized through their charitable organization All Within My Hands. Since the coronavirus pandemic has created even more need in the …

Alex Ebert, frontman of the band Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, performs some fan-favorites in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “In My Room,” an IGTV series in which musicians perform from their home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Performing from his backyard in New Orleans, Ebert jumps into the …