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Warren Zevon’s son isn’t sure how his late father would feel about finally getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “By now he’d be 78,” Jordan Zevon tells Rolling Stone. “How would 78-year-old pop react to it? He could have been the crankiest, get-off-my-lawn-guy on the planet, …

For years, no one really knew what went on behind the scenes at the Met Gala. After everyone walks the carpet, the night carries on without as many cameras. Every now and then, a bathroom selfie will emerge, or a sneak peek at whoever led the surprise performance. But there …

Eight months before Motörhead’s classic lineup recorded their self-titled debut, the trio found its sea legs in the studio at an August 1976 session, where they recorded early versions of half of Motörhead’s track list. Now, a year shy of the recordings’ 50th anniversary, the session will come out as …

The 60th ACM Awards are officially underway in Frisco, Texas, at the Ford Center at the Star, and the Academy of Country Music has already announced some winners. Trad-country revivalist Zach Top was awarded the trophy for New Male Artist of the Year, Ella Langley —the top nominee —was named …

“The song is all about finding my old phone,” Ed Sheeran says of his latest single, “Old Phone,” in the new music video for it. “I was finding text messages from people that aren’t even here anymore, and reading conversations with people that I wish that I could have conversations …

The cameras, iPhones, assistants, and Mountain Valley Spring Water glass bottles orbit him like he’s Neptune with its 16 moons. It feels like a red carpet gala arrival — but Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz is just getting to his newly built Street Mob Records offices near San Bernardino. …

Drake’s own label is roasting the rapper yet again, saying his second stab at the defamation lawsuit he filed over Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like Us” is so unfounded, it’s “astonishing.” In its new motion to dismiss Drake’s recently filed amended complaint, Universal Music Group (UMG) ridicules the rapper’s argument …

The R&B musician Kehlani was scheduled to perform at Cornell University and New York’s SummerStage, but saw both performances cancelled in connection with her vocal support of Palestine. These repercussions, the loss of opportunity or performance income, are an example of why some musicians may be hesitant to speak out. …

Lorde‘s custom Thom Browne ensemble at the Met Ball may contain hints about her forthcoming LP, Virgin. Speaking to Emma Chamberlain on the red carpet for Vogue, the singer said the gray two-piece dress is an “Easter egg” for the new music. “This is my creation,” Lorde said. “It’s something …

Last year, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats began making the leap from theaters to arenas, culminating in a headlining show at New York’s Madison Square Garden two months ago. But as Rateliff tells it, fans almost didn’t see him there or anywhere else on the tour, which had been …