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Frank Zappa’s 1975 prog-rock masterpiece One Size Fits All will receive a 50th-anniversary reissue this fall featuring a new remaster, unreleased session tracks, live recordings, and more. One Size Fits All: 50thAnniversary Edition, out Sept. 26 via Zappa Records/UMe, boasts the original LP — featuring Zappa classics like “Inca Roads,” …

“Can you believe I’m in Ozzy’s hometown tonight?” It’s a quarter to ten, and Lita Ford, 66, is backstage at K.K. Downing’s club in Birmingham, zipped into leather, the air thick with anticipation and sweat. Ford is about to deliver what will be the most wrenching live performance of “Close …

Los Bukis are standing with their immigrant fan base — and using one of their biggest career moments to honor them. On Wednesday, the Marco Antonio Solis-fronted group unveiled their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and used their speech to speak up for the people who “constructed our …

Are you ready to tie the knot? Lucy Dacus has announced that she will act as the wedding officiant for fans on her upcoming tour, which kicked off July 25 in Philadelphia. Dacus initially floated the idea over the weekend, suggesting she could help people wed during the Forever Is …

Kelly Clarkson is the latest artist to sell a stake in her catalog to private equity. HarbourView Equity Partners has acquired a portion of her life’s works. The acquisition was announced on Thursday. HarbourView will now own a portion of Clarkson’s biggest hits, including “Since U Been Gone” and “Because …

Hayley Williams shared a new song, titled “Mirtazapine,” on Tuesday night on Nashville radio station WNXP. The track, named for a common antidepressant, is a mid-tempo, shoegazey rock number that sees the Paramore singer unleashing her signature howling vocals. Williams posted a fuzzy photo of a bottle of Mirtazapine on …

The nonprofit organization Free Our Art is partnering with elected officials, educators, and music industry organizations to combat the criminalization of rap. Together, they’re advocating for the federal Restoring Artistic Protection Act (or R.A.P. Act) bill, which was reintroduced to the House today, and aims to “limit the admissibility of …

The Michael Jackson biopic, originally set for release in April 2025 but delayed by a potentially litigious third act, will now arrive a year later in April 2026. The Antoine Fuqua-directed Michael, starring the late singer’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as the King of Pop, initially wrapped shooting in May 2024, …

At 40, J Balvin has nothing left to prove — he already has iconic albums like 2018’s Vibras and 2010’s Colores under his belt. Still, earlier this month, a few days after performing at the halftime show of the FIFA Club World Cup final in New Jersey, the Colombian star …

Margaret Qualley is used to embodying larger than life characters on screen. Now, she has a musical alter ego in the form of Lace Manhattan. With help from her Grammy-winning producer husband Jack Antonoff as well as Oscar-winning director Ethan Coen, Lace Manhattan will have two new songs featured in …