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Patti Smith, Jon Batiste, and Japanese Breakfast are among the artists set to contribute to a new Spotify EP series, Live at Electric Lady. Each participating artist will share a short collection of songs recorded live at the famed New York City studio. The artists were encouraged to play their …

Jesse Malin may not drive much in his Lower East Side stomping grounds, but the New York City songwriter often puts his listeners in the passenger seat. Onstage he tells a story about riding around as a kid with his absentee father, swerving around drunks in the street who, his …

Chance the Rapper has released a new trailer for his upcoming concert film, Magnificent Coloring World. The film will premiere in Los Angeles on August 13th, with a New York premiere following on the 14th; Magnificent Coloring World will screen exclusively at AMC movie theaters. Magnificent Coloring World captures a …

East London band Dry Cleaning appeared on NPR‘s Tiny Desk series, performing a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert from a cassette tape- and vinyl-filled space. The group played several songs from their recent debut album, New Long Leg, including “Leafy,” “Her Hippo,” and “Unsmart Lady.” The intimate set also included a …

Courtney Love performed an acoustic rendition of Britney Spears’ 2000 hit “Lucky” as part of the singer’s ongoing covers series Saturday. Love’s cover came just hours after the publication of the New Yorker’s investigation into the Spears conservatorship as well as the events leading up to the controversial arrangement; for …

It’s still Ed Sheeran week on The Late Late Show and the singer’s most recent performance involved throwing it back to his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud.” Sheeran offered an intimate rendition of the track, off his album x, with an acoustic guitar and a backing band. James Corden also …

The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now focuses on the best hip-hop of 2021 so far, with Mankaprr Conteh and Jeff Ihaza joining host Brian Hiatt to talk about their picks. The episode draws from Conteh’s personal list of the year’s best songs (which ranges from Morray’s “Quicksand” to …

Sparks, the long-running electro-pop duo featuring brothers Russell and Ron Mael, have released another duet between Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard from their upcoming film, Annette. “We Love Each Other So Much” straddles the line between Eurodisco and the melodrama of a Phantom of the Opera outtake, as Driver sings …

On October 13th, the producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist J Kriv played a song from Detroit legend Moodymann on his monthly show, Live on Radio Alhara. Moodymann’s work is so distinctive that it can be tough to follow, so J Kriv relied on the shock of the new for the next …

Winston Marshall has announced that he is officially leaving Mumford & Sons following an uproar after he praised a book by right-wing social media personality Andy Ngo. “This is a difficult decision first brought about by an unintentional Twitter storm. In March I tweeted about the New York Times Best …