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“I love being the most unknown known person,” Jon Bellion triumphantly states on this week’s episode of Spotify Under Cover. The 28-year-old rapper tells the podcast a piece of advice he’s gotten from Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson: “It’s okay to be mega-successful and not famous. Because if you’re about …

Sturgill Simpson made his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in four years on Tuesday night, nodding to his Kentucky roots by playing a bluegrass set with an all-star band of pickers that included Sierra Hull on mandolin and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdX3g34YhWs With his longtime drummer Miles …

Banks creates an otherworldly club, where laser lights bend to her movement and will, slinky synth melodies flavor the moody setting and mesmerizing choreography beckons onlookers to join her in the singer’s new video for her recently released single, “Gimme.” Banks served as creative director and co-editor for the Matty …

Formed in Kent, Ohio during the late Seventies, Human Switchboard was one of a slew of bands who sprung up throughout the benighted American heartland in the wake of punk-rock’s initial explosion in New York and London — from the Gizmos in Indiana to the Embarrassment in Kansas to the …

Ed Sheeran will drop No.6 Collaborations Project on July 12th, a collection of new tracks created with numerous guest collaborators. His previously released single “I Don’t Care,” which features Justin Bieber, was the first song off the 13-song album. A second track, “Cross Me,” with Chance the Rapper and PnB …

Jakob Dylan and Jade Castrinos appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform their collaborative cover “Go Where You Wanna Go.” The classic tune, by the Mamas and the Papas, comes off the soundtrack to upcoming Laurel Canyon music documentary Echo In the Canyon. In the performance, the track takes on …

For R&B stars, J. Cole is a risky feature. On the one hand, he’s a massive star, capable of introducing your song to a new audience while, hopefully, making it better. However, his contributions to the Rhythm and Blues pantheon so far are often questionable, a frequent mixture of horny …

Ice Cube had a dream come true this week when George Clinton joined him for a rendition of his song, “That New Funkadelic.” The rapper put out that track as a single shortly before the release of his latest album, Everythang’s Corrupt. “That’s me trying to recreate what Funkadelic was …

The Black Keys spent five years apart before reconnecting for their new album Let’s Rock, and during that time, rumors grew about possible friction between Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney (“Did the Black Keys split?” is one of the first Google questions that comes up if you search for the …

Tim Heidecker unveiled a blunt and brutal new song, “To the Men,” addressed to the state legislators attempting to restrict or outright ban abortion. The song is available on Heidecker’s Bandcamp with all proceeds going to the Yellow Hammer Fund, which provides funding for people seeking care at Alabama’s three …