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A little over 10 years ago, Micah Nelson‘s career took a very unexpected diversion when Neil Young asked him, his brother Lukas, and Lukas’ band Promise of the Real to back him on a series of albums, tours, and even a film that kept everyone busy until the pandemic hit. …

This Is Lorelei is back with a new album (sort of). The New York-based singer-songwriter, a.k.a. Nate Amos, announced today that he’s releasing Holo Boy on Dec. 12 via the esteemed indie label Double Double Whammy. The album is a collection of re-recorded songs from Amos’ early years, originally written …

Irving Azoff‘s Iconic Artists Group has acquired a stake in the estate of legendary crooner Frank Sinatra. Azoff revealed the news last week while speaking at a Bloomberg conference in Los Angeles, saying that IAG had “recently acquired a chunk of the estate.” Frank Sinatra Enterprises (a joint venture between …

The audience at the Los Angeles stop on Playboi Carti‘s Antagonist Tour was treated to a hometown surprise when Kendrick Lamar made a surprise appearance. Carti and Lamar performed their collaboration “Good Credit,” which appeared on the Atlanta rapper’s latest album Music. On Instagram, Carti wrote that bringing Lamar out …

Start with the laundry. Of the many times Bob Mould‘s band Sugar unexpectedly found itself at the center of pop culture in the Nineties, one in particular springs to mind for him: a 1992 festival in Belgium where Sugar were on the same bill as Metallica, Neil Young and Crazy …

The government shutdown has been dragging on for two weeks. It’s been a dystopian stretch for America’s military and veteran community. The stoppage, led by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, has frozen military pay, leaving active-duty military families wondering how they will pay their mortgages, feed their kids, …

Despite being raised in Nashville, Shooter Jennings is a Los Angeles guy through and through. He started his first rock band, Stargunn, there, embedded himself in the city’s underground arts scene as he evolved as both a solo artist and Grammy-winning producer, and now produces albums at Sunset Sound Recorders, …

It was four days after Father’s Day. Midway through the Drive-By Truckers‘ informal late-night acoustic show in their hometown of Athens, Georgia, their 23-year-old guitarist and budding songwriter named Jason Isbell decided to premiere a song he’d just written as a Father’s Day gift for his dad. That song was …

Justin Timberlake has paid tribute to D’Angelo, whose three solo albums —his debut, Brown Sugar, 2000’sVoodoo, and 2014’sBlack Messiah— reshaped the landscape of soul music and helped ignite a new era. Following D’Angelo’s passing on Oct. 14 at 51, Timberlake shared how the visionary’s work impacted his own musical journey …

To many rap fans forged in the blog era, Wale’s cultural footprint is as well known as the admitted challenges he confronts on the new single “Mirroronnabenz.” With a backdrop where Afrobeat meets hip-hop soul, feeling both characteristic of and evolutionary for the Nigerian-American rapper, “Mirroronnabenz” finds Wale and producer …