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For many Americans, Cuba is a country lost in time, sealed off from the United States for nearly six decades. For Raul Malo of the Mavericks, it’s a missing piece of who he is, and in the new documentary Havana Time Machine he finally gets to unravel the mystery, a …

Onstage at New York’s Radio City Music Hall earlier this month, Solange, still touring behind her momentous 2016 album, A Seat at the Table, was flanked by two pyramids; between them was a massive orb, resembling a heavenly body in the night. Behind those structures was a bleachers-like setup, where …

A new, super-deluxe box set will chronicle the making of Metallica’s influential Master of Puppets LP, showing how the songs developed from riff fragments into the thrash epics that make up one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Metal Albums. The collection’s “Riffs, Demos and Outtakes” disc contains three riffs, two …

Sam Smith returned to Saturday Night Live to perform a pair of tracks from the singer’s upcoming new album The Thrill of It All, “Too Good at Goodbyes” and his just-released album closer “Pray.” The Thrill of It All, the follow-up to Smith’s 2014 breakthrough debut LP In the Lonely …

The Rolling Stones will collect 18 recordings the band performed on the BBC from 1963 to 1965 for the upcoming compilation On Air. The collection, due out December 1st, culls the Rolling Stones‘ performances from BBC shows like Saturday Club, The Joe Loss Pop Show, Blues in Rhythm, Top Gear …

Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck joined Coldplay onstage in Portland, Oregon on Monday night to pay homage to Tom Petty with a cover of “Free Fallin.’” Petty died on Monday at age 66. Coldplay played a faithful version of Petty’s hit after asking the crowd for a minute of silence. …

In 1996, Bob Dylan met Daniel Lanois in a hotel room in New York. He wanted Lanois to listen to some lyrics that he’d put together and tell him if there was enough there for his first collection of original songs in more than half a decade. Dylan and Lanois …

Lauren Alaina‘s current single “Doin’ Fine” opens with the killer couplet, “Daddy got sober, mama got his best friend / I’ve cut down crying to every other weekend,” pulling the first part directly from her own life to set up a look inward at a complicated set of emotions. Alaina …

Katy Perrysobs during a therapy session in a preview of her upcoming YouTube Red special, Will You Be My Witness?, out October 4th. The feature-length project includes previously unseen content from the singer’s 96-hour June livestream promoting her fifth LP, Witness. In one memorable scene, the recent VMAs host breaks …

Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett hang with family and friends in the charming video for their new single, “Continental Breakfast.” The airy folk tune will appear on the pair’s upcoming collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, out October 13th. The Danny Cohen-directed clip blends footage of Vile and Barnett in their …