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Taylor Swift, who has long supported independent music shops and vinyl culture, will serve as Record Store Day Ambassador for this year’s event, set to take place on April 23. The artist is the event’s first global ambassador. Over the years, the singer-songwriter has put out special releases for both …

Kacey Musgraves began her Star-Crossed: Unveiled Tour in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday night, opening the first show of the tour with the title track to her latest album, Star-Crossed. Similar to her performance of the song at September’s MTV Video Music Awards, Musgraves sang standing in front of an …

UPDATE: Paul Simon, Stephen Colbert and Cyndi Lauper have joined the 2022 Tibet House benefit. – Keanu Reeves will be among the performers — yes, performers — along with artists like Patti Smith, Trey Anastasio, and Jason Isbell when the Tibet House virtually holds its annual benefit concert on March …

Marianne Faithfull will give her 1999 album, Vagabond Ways, the deluxe treatment with a reissue due out March 4. She’s teasing the release with the demo recording for the album’s “Incarceration of a Flower Child,” a song Roger Waters wrote in 1968 but never recorded with Pink Floyd. On the …

Florida prosecutors have rejected a trespassing charge against Kodak Black after the “Zeze” rapper was arrested at the Golden Acres public housing development in his Pompano Beach hometown on New Year’s Day. Broward County prosecutors made the decision Wednesday, according to paperwork filed by Broward County prosecutors and obtained by …

Britney Spears wants a judge to pull the plug on her dad’s ability to tap her fortune for his legal representation as she investigates his purported financial “self-dealing” and alleged surveillance inside her home during her 13-year conservatorship. In a new filing ahead of a court showdown Wednesday, the pop …

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are bringing their Seventies soul to Las Vegas for An Evening with Silk Sonic. The newly announced residency is currently slated to run for 13 dates from Feb. 25 through April 2 at Park MGM’s Dolby Live. The duo first shared the news on social …

Fifty years ago this week, music fans were reintroduced to Paul Simon, the solo artist. They first met him in the late Fifties when he released a series of flop singles like “True or False” and “Anne Belle” under the pseudonyms True Taylor and Jerry Landis. He briefly dinged the …

Robert Glasper appeared on The Tonight Show Monday to showcase two tracks off the pianist’s upcoming album, Black Radio III. The “Black Superhero” performance, assembled in honor of the Martin Luther King Day holiday, featured appearances from Rapsody, BJ the Chicago Kid and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Glasper and poet Amir …

As strange as this may sound, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s life is going to be the subject of a biopic, and Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to play him. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will be Roku’s first original biopic. It will be written by Funny or Die’s Eric Appel along …