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On Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden outlined a stimulus plan that included, among other things, increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Later the same night, Blake Shelton’s auspiciously titled new song “Minimum Wage” was released to the public — not surprisingly, it doesn’t attempt to unpack the vital …

Black Sabbath recently announced plans to release deluxe editions of Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules from their early-Eighties Ronnie James Dio period on March 8th. The sets feature remastered sound, previously unreleased cuts, and live performances of classics like “Neon Knights” and “Die Young” recorded at various gigs between …

Danny Elfman‘s latest single, “Sorry,” is a panoply of sarcastic apologies set to a typically dark-hued backdrop of orchestral rock. A woman’s voice jumps from speaker to speaker singing, “I’m so sorry,” until Elfman opens his own mouth to reveal the song’s more sinister intentions. “You suffocate, and I’m so …

Ed Bruce, the country singer-songwriter behind hits including “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” died Friday, January 8th in Clarksville, Tennessee, from natural causes, according to his publicist. He was 81. William Edwin Bruce Jr. was born December 29th, 1939, in Keiser, Arkansas, and raised in …

Country music made huge strides forward with streaming listeners in 2020, led by a handful of popular releases from Luke Combs and Morgan Wallen. That meant a bigger piece of a still-growing pie from a genre that has historically lagged with regard to streaming. Year-end data from the Rolling Stone …

Kirk Hammett looks back on his career — including the time he played in Exodus before joining Metallica — in Gibson TV’s upcoming Icons interview. In a preview clip, Hammett recalls seeing interest in Metallica seem to blow up overnight in San Francisco, going from a gig with 15 people …

The music for Ozzy Osbourne‘s upcoming album is quite epic, according to producer Andrew Watt. “There’s some songs on there that are like eight or nine minutes long that are these really crazy journeys,” he recently told Guitar World. “I’m really excited about it.” Watt helmed Osbourne’s 12th solo album, …

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …

Billie Eilish has released the first official trailer for her upcoming documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, premiering in theaters and on Apple TV Plus February 26th, 2021. The trailer gives glimpses of Eilish’s teenage years and her family life during her rapid rise to pop stardom. Symbolically, the …

Less than a month after Lil Wayne was charged with one count of possessing a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, the rapper pleaded guilty to the federal charge Friday at a Florida court hearing. “Your honor, I plead guilty to the charge,” the rapper born Dwayne Michael Carter …