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Frank Ocean finally dropped a bit of new music, producing an instrumental score for a new episode of his Apple Music 1 show, Blonded Radio. The trance-like composition — which starts out atmospheric before settling into a steady late-night dancefloor groove — appears in “Blonded Lucy in the Sky With …

Billy Joel performed at Detroit’s Comerica Park on July 9, just one night before the Mötley Crüe/Def Leppard/Poison/Joan Jett mega tour hit the same venue. It happened to be a night off for the Eighties hard rock groups, and Joel brought out one of the lead singers to give his …

Halsey is auctioning off a series of paintings created on stage during their “Love and Power Tour,” with all the proceeds benefiting the National Network of Abortion Funds. The five paintings are on sale now as part of Sotheby’s Contemporary Discoveries auction, which wraps on July 19. Each piece has …

Reba McEntire has announced a string of headlining arena tour dates for fall 2022. “Reba: Live in Concert” will get underway in October and features guest performer Terri Clark. Kicking off Oct. 13 in Lafayette, Louisiana, the trek will run 17 dates in total and wrap up in the second …

In September, Blackbear will head out on his first headlining tour since 2019. The Nothing Matters North American tour will launch in support of the musician’s sixth studio album In Loving Memory, set for release later this year. The 15-date tour begins on Sept. 4 at Atlanta’s Coca Cola Roxy. …

An extremely rare copy of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan just sold at Heritage Auctions over the weekend for $150,000 — 2.5 times the $60,000 estimate pre-auction. The stereo pressing of Bob Dylan’s second album contains the four tracks that were replaced prior to its official release in May 1963: “Rocks …

Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw announced a tour in support of his seventh album Face the River. The tour will launch Aug. 20 at the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre in Clearwater, Florida and find DeGraw criss-crossing the Midwest and East Coast. There will be a special Aug. 31 “homecoming” show at the Event …

In late 1971, when Curtis Mayfield began writing Super Fly — the 1972 film soundtrack that would turn out to be his magnum opus — he should have been burned out. He had spent a decade with the Impressions, becoming one of pop music’s de facto voices of the civil …

Near the end of Rage Against the Machine‘s first concert in 11 years, frontman Zack de la Rocha walked to the tip of the stage, squinted his eyes shut, and roared out the “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” climax of “Killing In The Name” as roughly …

Released ten years ago today, Frank Ocean’s debut, Channel Orange, stands as a singular achievement in popular culture and a touchstone for a cohort born into the ethics of social media. Frank exhibits the kind of radical openness that would come to define a generation of young people who, like …