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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready collaborates with two members of Seattle hard-rock band Thunderpussy, vocalist Molly Sides and guitaristWhitney Petty, on his simmering new song “Show Your Colors.” On the track, which appears on the soundtrack to Megan Griffiths’ coming-of-age drama Sadie, Sides belts bluesy lines about “broken secrets and …

BMI, the performing rights company that handles Rihanna‘s music publishing, has anted up the singer’s efforts to keep the Trump campaign from using the singer’s music. The organization, Broadcast Music, Inc., sent a letter informing the campaign that it may no longer use her music. In the past, the campaign …

Carole King discussed the inspiration behind her new version of “One” and what it was like returning to the studio during an appearance on Today Tuesday. “One” first appeared on King’s 1977 album, Simple Things, and last month she shared a new version of the song, which kept the original’s …

Two people were stabbed during an incident that occurred Friday at Sony Music’s London headquarters. The label’s offices on Derry Street were also evacuated “as a precaution” following the incident, BBC News reported. “Sony Music confirmed there was an incident at Derry Street resulting in the building being evacuated,” Sony …

Chicago MC Mick Jenkins has always been something of a rap hermit, emerging when he feels ready and dropping sprawling projects of baritone philosophy and freeform wordplay. When he broke out in 2014 with the contemplative mixtape The Water (S), Jenkins seemed to exist outside of the general rap universe: …

From Nirvana to Radiohead to Queen, Panic! At the Disco are known for covering high-energy rock anthems at their live shows. They went in a different — and arguably more challenging — direction with Outkast‘s 2003 slam “Hey Ya.” Panic frontman Brendon Urie explained that every song the band covers …

The night before most singers put out an album, tradition dictates that they spend some time promoting their new work. Music is a business, after all, and listeners can’t stream or buy your songs if they don’t know that those songs exist. It would be generous to say that the …

The first thing that strikes you about Ian Sweet‘s bright, bracing indie-pop is the tension between Jilian Medford’s diminutive voice and the huge, candied tumult she’s creating and hurling her voice into, and against. It gives off the feeling of someone being transported, or falling into or maybe even being …

Singer-songwriter Tony Joe White, a prolific tunesmith whose swamp-soaked 1968 pop hit “Polk Salad Annie,” reflected his Louisiana upbringing, died yesterday, Wednesday, October 24th, of natural causes at his home in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. He was 75. White, who had a Top Ten record with “Polk Salad …

Over the past three decades, Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett has been one of the foremost collectors of horror-movie posters and paraphernalia. In a new interview with Sotheby’s— which is auctioning a particularly rare poster for the 1932 adaptation of The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff — he details his history with the …