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On newWu-Tang Clan-relatedsong “Lesson Learn’d,”Inspectah Deck disses Martin Shkreli, the infamous “Pharma bro” who reportedly paid $2 million for a copy of the group’s one-of-a-kind LP, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (before selling it on eBay), and exchanged widely publicized barbs with Ghostface Killah. “My price hikin’ like the …

For the first time in over 16 years, founding Kiss members Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley performed together onstage in St. Paul, Minnesota. The concert was a Hurricane Harvey benefit forThe Children Matter, an initiative Simmons co-founded with in collaboration with the nonprofit,Matter,Blabbermouth reports. The musicians performed four Seventies-era Kiss …

Shortly before the Edge got on the phone with Rolling Stone to talk about U2‘s upcoming LP Songs of Experience, Bono‘s “brush with mortality” that sent the album into a different lyrical direction and his thoughts about the band’s upcoming arena tour, we sent the singer a bunch of questions …

Lady Gagapostponed the European leg of her Joanne World Tour in order to heal “severe physical pain,” she said. “I have to be with my doctors right now so I can be strong and perform for you all for the next 60 years or more,” the singer wrote Monday on …

A white supremacist website will stop using Johnny Cash‘s cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” as the theme of its weekly radio broadcasts after Universal Music and American Recordings sent a cease-and-desist letter to the hate-based organization. Stormfront Radio, the weekly radio show for the white supremacist site …

“Thank you to the Americana fans, because, without you, there might be no other place for me,” said Amanda Shires, collecting her award for Emerging Artist of the Year at Wednesday’s 16th annual Americana Honors & Awards in Nashville. And she’s right: as guests filtered into the Ryman Auditorium, Sam …

James Corden attempted to playfully humiliate Fifth Harmony on Tuesday’s Late Late Show, recruiting the girl group for a game of “Flinch.” The singers stood behind a plate of glass, holding martinis, and attempted to not spill the beverage as the host fired fruit at them. (Dinah Jane, just shy …

Blank-faced Thom Yorke spends the entirety of Radiohead‘s new video for “Lift” stuck inside the claustrophobic confines of an elevator. The conceit is borrowed directly from the song itself, which recently saw official release on the 20th anniversary reissue of OK Computer. “This is the place, sit down, you’re safe …

Jack Johnson is a retired competitive surfer living with his college sweetheart in Hawaii, but dude wants you to know he still stresses. “I don’t care for your paranoid us-against-them walls,” he purrs over gentle calypso-rocksteady grooves on “My Mind Is for Sale”; “Fragments” is a wistful ballad for our …

Technical issues that delayed the arrival of the Billboard 200 couldn’t keep Lana Del Rey from opening at Number One as the singer’s Lust for Life claimed the top spot with 107,000 total copies. Lust for Life marked the second Number One LP for Del Rey, who previously topped the …