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J. Cole has released his first song of 2020. On the introspective track, “Snow on Tha Bluff,” the rapper discusses the current discourse around the Black Lives Matter movement, particularly on social media. On the free-flowing song, he opens by addressing a social media thread made by someone who’s “mad …

Diplo has built an impressive résumé with his uncanny ability to look ahead and highlight scenes from around the globe that are about to break open, ushering them into the mainstream. But for his latest project, the 41-year-old producer-DJ-musician looked backward to his childhood in the South as a kid …

Every morning at precisely 11:30 a.m., 070 Shake puts Pink Floyd’sDark Side of the Moon on a record player in the studio where she works in New Jersey. “Every day, at the same time,” the 22-year-old singer says. Shake is signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam, one …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Elton John has postponed the remaining North American dates on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour due to the coronavirus. “It is with deep regret that Elton John must postpone the remainder of his upcoming North American 2020 dates on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour,” the singer’s team tweeted …