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Fans at the Asbury Park’s Music + Film festival had seen a lot of rare, mindblowing live Bruce Springsteen footage by the end of Saturday night. In the city’s old Paramount Theatre, where Springsteen has performed many times, they saw rare clips like a highly-charged performance of “Quarter to Three” …

Bruce Springsteen took a page out of the Taylor Swift playbook by dropping a video for his new single, “Hello Sunshine,” onto the Internet exactly at midnight. Springsteen doesn’t appear in the clip, which shows an old car with New Jersey plates traveling through the desert. He spent all week …

Elvis Costello & the Imposters invite fans into a psychedelic castle with their trippy lyric video for recent song “Mr. and Mrs. Hush.” The animated clip opens with a slow zoom in on the regal, keyboard-adorned palace. “I tripped through the house of mirrors/Distorted my suspicions and fears,” Costello sings, …

Last week, at New York concert by Nick Mason‘s Saucerful of Secrets, Roger Waters stunned fans by coming out to sing “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.” We’re very, very close and old friends,” Waters told the crowd. “Loving the show, by the way, Nick. My considered …

Just a couple months after announcing their reunion, the Jonas Brothers are set to release their fifth studio album,Happiness Begins, on June 7th. This will be their first full-length LP since 2009’sLines, Vines and Trying Times. The trio’s fifth LP comes on the heels of their first Number One single, …

DuringAnderson .Paakand & the Free Nationals’ Coachella set on Friday night, the musician enlisted two special guests for the performance. The hip-hop artist brought out R&B icon Brandy for “Jet Black,” a song from his album Ventura released earlier this month. Later on, Jay Rock joined.Paak for “King’s Dead,” the …

Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers pay homage to Wayne’s World while taking a giant dump on the city of Chicago — as a means of grappling with a break-up — in the hilarious new video for their song, “I Hate Chicago.” Directed by Hannah Welever, the clip reimagines …

Let’s get a few things out of the way about “Power is Power,” the first single from the Game of Thrones soundtrack, For the Throne. The Weeknd doesn’t compare Daenerys Targaryen’s hair to cocaine. Travis Scott avoids saying “it’s lit” after a punchline about dragons. SZA is, well… SZA. The …

Director John Singleton’s film Baby Boy is a classic of early-2000s black cinema. Tyrese Gibson stars as Jody, a guy with a serious Oedipus complex living in South Central Los Angeles. Throughout the movie, Jody deals with the ramifications of being an absent father, a nigh-worthless son and a bad …

Aretha Franklin was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize‘s Special Citation, the prestigious journalism and the arts organization announced Monday. Franklin was recognized “for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades,” the Pulitzer Prize board added of the honor. Franklin is one of less than …