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On June 27, the legendary DJ Polo died at 63. The Queens DJ is remembered for the seminal work he did with the revered MC Kool G Rap starting in the mid-1980s. As Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, they released three studio albums, including 1989’s “Road to the Riches” …

Last night, Bob Mould posted a snippet of a new song on his social media accounts: “The toddler and the sycophants/Time to say goodbye,” he sang. The inspiration for the song was evident enough. Although Mould was born in New York State, he attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, …

Drake might be onto something about the future of celebrity documentaries. On Tuesday, he shared a huge data dump, purportedly 100 gigabytes worth of behind-the-scenes footage and unreleased music, via a burner Instagram account he appears to have kept under wraps for several months. Pilfering through the files feels like …

Upstairs in the bathroom insulated from the blaring pulse of Afrobeats and dancehall, women in black miniskirts and tight dresses were drying their arms and legs. We’d withstood a torrential downpour to get into New York City’s Musica nightclub for Rema’s Heis listening party, celebrating the second album of the …

It’s been 13 weeks since Kendrick Lamar dropped “Not Like Us,” the devastating Drake diss that’s now sat near the top of the charts for the majority of the summer. While he’s been relatively quiet since then, it looks like Drake is plotting a return to the public eye. On …

Not long ago, Johnny Irion was putting the finishing touches on his new album when he realized that he could use some harmony vocals. So he called Mike Mills, who met him at a mutual friend’s studio in Georgia, and they spent an afternoon singing together. “I just love Johnny’s …

As a teen in the mid-1990s, I spent countless hours with my friends, rooting through our parents’ LPs from the Sixties, while also swooning over Jakob Dylan and styling ourselves after the rockers of Lilith Fair. Those memories were so strong that when I was writing The Singer Sisters, my …

Aerosmith dropped a bomb on their fans late Friday afternoon when they announced that not only was their long-delayed farewell tour not happening, but the band was effectively over due to a vocal injury Steven Tyler suffered last year. “As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other,” …

On the evening of Feb. 28, 1984, Prince was at home, watching Michael Jackson become the first artist to win eight Grammys in a single night, including Album of the Year for Thriller. When the broadcast was over, Prince turned to Bobby Z, his longtime friend and drummer for the …

August 1969 was a very Creedence month. But so were most months back then. Creedence Clearwater Revival, the most popular band in America, were riding the hot streak of all hot streaks, cranking out swamp-rock classics at a crazy pace. John Fogerty and his Northern California crew released their masterpiece …