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The Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny has purchased billboards across San Juan in protest of the New Progressive Party, which has a lead in the November gubernatorial election. Across the city’s main streets, several billboards have popped up, with one reading, “A vote for the PNP is a vote for …

M ethod Man’s star power was evident from the moment listeners heard him on Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), especially the album’s lone solo single, which carried his name. During our recent Zoom call, he tells me in his gravelly baritone that he’s still likely to listen to that project …

Standing on the State Street Stage, which straddles the Tennessee-Virginia border, at this month’s Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, 49 Winchester’s Isaac Gibson looked out at the sprawling audience facing him and sang the chorus that so many came to hear: “And if you wonder how I’m doing/know that I …

Nickelback‘s Nashville show last year was a big blowout celebration that’s been captured for a new album, Nickelback: Live From Nashville. The band previewed the album, out on Nov. 15, with a live version of their Get Rollin’ track “San Quentin.” The Live From Nashville album was recorded during Nickelback’s …

Nearly three years after the death of Mark Lanegan, the beloved grunge singer’s closest friends and collaborators will bound together this December for a London tribute concert. Marking what would have been his 60th birthday, Mark Lanegan – A Celebration will feature guests like his Queens of the Stone Age …

On April 4, 1977, Neil Young laid down the breezy love tune “Hey Babe” at his Northern California ranch, backed by Crazy Horse, pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, fiddle player Carole Mayedo, and background vocalists the Bullets, a.k.a. Linda Ronstadt, and Nicolette Larson. The song appeared on Side One of …

Interpol are celebrating two decades of their second studio album, Antics. The record was initially released on Sept. 27, 2004 and featured the singles “Slow Hands,” “Evil,” “C’mere,” and “Narc.” It was a defining moment for Interpol, who are now reissuing the album as a three-LP box set including previously …

“Africa to the world” has been a popular rallying cry from the continent and its diaspora as the global appetite for its culture has grown rapidly. Many hope to further extend its reach. Yet, as African artisans connect and build upon one another’s successes, they’ve come to center themselves. “Made …

The sudden death of Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock three months ago has been linked to fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid also cited in the untimely deaths of fellow musicians Prince, Tom Petty, Mac Miller, and Lil Peep. In a statement released Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner revealed …

Music is an art form — and so is translation. Annie Clark, who’s better known as the boundary-pushing art-rock firebrand St. Vincent, recently learned this firsthand as she pored over every lyric of her seventh album, All Born Screaming, alchemically transforming each word into Spanish. Clark, 41, grew up in …