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“Superman is the best friend you could have,” Iggy Pop recently said, responding to the prominent use of “Punkrocker,” his 2006 collaboration with Teddybears, in the final scene of Superman —and he proved he meant it Saturday night by playing the formerly obscure track live for the first time ever. …

In its first week, Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out album accrued 118,000 first-week sales, earning a spot at Number Four on the Billboard 200 — their highest chart debut. Along with its sharp rhymes, the album was praised for its extensive and holistic media rollout, which appeased blog-era rap …

Jack Antonoff and Bleachers brought out the guests Friday during their set at the Newport Folk Festival, welcoming the likes of Hayley Williams, Jeff Tweedy, Weyes Blood and more to the stage during what was billed as “The Ally Coalition Talent Show.” Waxahatchee, Rufus Wainwright, and Dan Reeder also took …

Tom Lehrer, the influential song satirist whose darkly comic lyrics gained a cult following decades after he stopped making music, has died at the age of 97. Lehrer died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his longtime friend David Herder told the Associated Press. No cause of death was provided. …

If Bad Bunny were your standard artist, he could have — and probably would have — orchestrated the kind of tour that guarantees superstardom and an ever-growing fanbase, filling up stadiums across the U.S. and the rest of the globe to rake in more attention and money. But precisely what’s …

Bad Bunny kicked off the third week of his Puerto Rican residency No Me Quiero Ir De Aqui with a show-stopping performance and two special guests: rising star Young Miko and salsa legend Gilberto Santa Rosa both came out to a roaring crowd and joined Benito onstage for a pair …

The Soundside Music Festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut, scheduled to take place in late September with headliners like the Killers, Hozier, and Vampire Weekend, has been canceled. On Friday, the fest’s website updated with a note from organizers that read, “Due to circumstances beyond our control, Soundside Music Festival has been …

Following the premiere of the second part of Billy Joel’s And So It Goes documentary, the Piano Man dropped a massive 155-song companion album on digital services featuring unreleased recordings and more. Never-before-heard music from Joel’s archives are peppered throughout the five-hour HBO documentary, from his early days with Long …

Among the brilliant first four Talking Heads albums, More Songs About Buildings and Food has always been a dark horse candidate for the all-around greatest. Released 47 years ago this month, it sounds more electable now than ever. With its lean muscularity, panic-attack propulsion, weird ambiance, highwire anxiety, paranoid prescience …

While Astronomer lost their CEO and HR exec amid the Coldplay concert viral scandal, their marketing team has picked up the slack with a clever new ad that enlists Gwyneth Paltrow, the ex-wife of Chris Martin. Hours after the tech company’s chief human resources officer Kristin Cabot resigned, Astronomer’s socials …