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After remaining relatively quiet for most of 2019, the Nigerian singer Wande Coal released a new single titled “Ode Lo Like” on Thursday. The track marks Coal’s first release through Empire as part of a joint venture with Starstruck Management. “Ode Lo Like” builds around a sinuous guitar line and …

Hawaii representative and Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard shared a sweet and simple cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine” to mark the 39th anniversary of the musician’s death Sunday. In the clip, Gabbard and her husband, Abraham Williams, perform the song in the back of her campaign bus. Williams strums a …

Throughout the past year, Mary Chapin Carpenter has spent much of her time writing songs for a new album she plans to record early next year. The as-yet-untitled LP, which reunites her with producer Ethan Johns (2018’s Sometimes Just the Sky), is preceded by the premiere of Carpenter’s “Our Man …

Having her own children’s clothing line — and Rolling Stone’s #2 album of the year — apparently isn’t enough creative control for Billie Eilish: The fiercely inventive artist has directed the video for “Xanny.” The song comes from her much-lauded 2019 album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We …

Iggy Pop, Bettye LaVette and Margo Price top a packed lineup for the 33rd annual Tibet House Benefit Concert, taking place February 26th, 2020 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Composer Philip Glass will return as the event’s artistic director, and has curated a lineup that also boasts the …

Lynyrd Skynyrd have added another North American leg to their Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour. The run kicks off March 7th, 2020, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Arena in Savannah, Georgia, and wraps May 8th at the Appalachian Wireless Arena in Pikeville, Kentucky. The band also has …

Thanksgiving is in the rearview and it’s the end of the road for the 2010s. That means it’s time to celebrate winter festivities with this playlist of the best Christmas and Hanukkah songs from the last decade. Grab your glockenspiel and a cup of non-dairy eggnog and cozy up to …

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have known each other for 60 years. They love each other. “I used to say that I love him, but with my fingers crossed,” says Townshend of Daltrey. Townshend, gangly and hunched, his angular face having grown into his long nose, sits in a Dallas …

Marilyn Manson has been waiting his whole life to bellow, “Father! I want to keelll you!” He gets to live out all of his Jim Morrison fantasies on a new cover of the Doors’ menacing meditation, “The End,” which he seems to be releasing as a standalone 12-inch picture disc …

The 1975 have paired their latest single “Frail State of Mind” with an immersive new music video co-directed by frontman Matty Healy. The visual, presented in gloriously dulled VHS quality, finds Healy messing around in what looks like a 1975-centric art installment, with the singer recording himself on cameras that …