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In case you missed it, here are some highlights (and one shattering lowlight) from this week in Latinmusic —now with a Spotify playlist! Mexican Pop Icon José José Dies at 71 Mexican singer-songwriter José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz, best known as José José, passed away on Saturday, at the age of …

The Mountain Goats have digitally released their recent track “Get High and Listen to the Cure,” the B-side to the band’s “Welcome to Passaic” 7-inch. The 7-inch initially dropped in August via Merge, but the second track wasn’t available to hear online until now. The roughshod track, originally created during …

If anybody’s having a fantastic year, it’s both Puerto Rican-Dominican star Ozuna and Panamanian singer-songwriter Sech. Ozuna made headlines after scoring not one, but four Guinness World Record Titles for his exceptionally high streaming numbers. Then 25-year-old Sech, urbano’s Rookie of the Year, got the news of a lifetime when …

Producer Mark Ronson brought Late Night Feelings to late-night TV Tuesday, performing “Don’t Leave Me Lonely” with singer YEBBA and the Roots on the Tonight Show stage. Ronson performed behind a large wooden DJ booth, embedded with the broken-heart disco ball design seen on the cover of Late Night Feelings. YEBBA, meanwhile, …

Paul McCartney reminisced about the Beatles during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Monday. The legendary musician, who recently released his new children’s book, Hey Grandude!, spoke of his bond with John Lennon, experiencing the fallout from the Beatles’ break up and how his dreams have …

As a teenager growing up in Alabama, Riley Green received some important musical education from his grandfather Buford Green, whose old Epiphone guitar they’d use while learning how to play a few classic country songs. Later, his grandfather called up a few musician buddies to come join, then word got …

Rod Stewart is revisiting some of his most famous songs in a symphonic setting with You’re in My Heart, an upcoming album that blends his original vocal tracks with new arrangements from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Trevor Horn (the Buggles, Yes) produced the LP, out November 22nd via Rhino. The …

Mariah Carey has penned the new theme song, “In the Mix,” for ABC’s upcoming series, Mixed-ish, which debuts on September 24th. The ABC series is a spinoff prequel to Black-ish, which follows Tracee Ellis Ross’ character, Rainbow Johnson, while she details growing up in the Eighties in a mixed-race family, …

Charli XCX invited Christine and the Queens to join her for a rendition of their joint single, “Gone,” on The Tonight Show. The moody, gothic-themed performance brought the pair onstage together in all-black garb to offer an impassioned version of the pulsating track. “Gone” comes off Charli XCX’s recent album …

The Who will release a new album, WHO, on November 22nd via Polydor Records, their first in 13 years. The rock band has previewed the release with rollicking, politically-tinged single “Ball and Chain,” which the band has previously played live. The eleven-track album was primarily recorded in London and Los …