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Late last week, Sammy Hagar shared his new song “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” which he claims he wrote in a dream with Eddie Van Halen. “This was 100 percent a communication from the beyond,” Hagar told Rolling Stone. “There is no question about it. I dream about Eddie all the …

Producer Infinity Knives’ adventurous, electronic-­driven tracks have been the perfect sound bed for Brian Ennals’ sharp social commentary and self-effacing sense of humor, going back to their joint 2020 project, Rhino XXL. That mesh is displayed on the Maryland artist’s latest project, A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears. On …

It would be hard for Role Model not to feel like he’s on top of the world right now. The 27-year-old musician released his second studio album,Kansas Anymore,back in July with an expanded deluxe version in February, and he spent a month on the road with Gracie Abrams this fall …

Mike Peters, frontman for the Welsh New Wave band the Alarm, best remembered for their Eighties hits “Sixty Eight Guns,” “Strength,” and “Rain in the Summertime,” died April 29 after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. The Alarm were often compared to U2 since the two groups forged …

The Hall, the Hall will tear us apart. Again. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its new crop of inductees, revealing that New Order got rejected this year. The Hall nominated Joy Division and New Order as one band, which meant that Hall voters had a chance …

Driven by dubious metrics, fumbling with clearly baked-in blind spots and biases, in recurring corrective mode (see Sister Rosetta Tharpe) when it musters the will, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is always missing much of the real action in its attempts to canonize music that, if it sticks …

The annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is a place where miracles regularly take place. Over the decades, sleeping rock giants like Led Zeppelin, the Police, Cream, the Byrds, the Velvet Underground, Simon and Garfunkel, and Talking Heads have briefly reawakened to play a few songs before …

Within three years of releasing their first single, the rising global girl group XG were at Coachella to help close out the festival at the Sahara Tent. Members Jurin, Chisa, Hinata, Harvey, Juria, Maya, and Cocona delivered an electrifying set that spanned their discography from fan-favorite tracks like “LEFT RIGHT” …

When Mariah Carey received her second nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, the institution’s foundation chairman John Sykes issued a statement celebrating the latest batch of nominees. “These remarkable nominees have each created their own musical style and attitude impacting generations of music lovers,” …

When Suge Knight sped away from Tam’s Burgers in Compton, California, on Jan. 29, 2015, he left two men lying on the asphalt behind him. He had just shifted gears and barreled over the pair with his two-ton Ford Raptor truck. One of the men, Terry Carter, would die from …