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Luck Reunion, the bucket-list music festival held each March at Willie Nelson’s ranch in Spicewood, Texas, has announced its 2025 lineup. Along with a set by perennial headliner Nelson and his Family Band, the daylong fest will include performances by Charley Crockett, Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Shane Smith and the …

Thom Yorke has teamed up with Mark Pritchard for the new single “Back in the Game,” the second collaboration between the Radiohead singer and the electronic artist. “Back in the Game” previously debuted onstage last year during Yorke’s “Everything” solo tour of Australia and Asia, with the studio version arriving …

Years ago, venue owners across New York were probably getting calls from a person with a weird accent pitching a young star named Lady Gaga. Turns out, it might’ve been Gaga herself. During her Hot Ones interview, the pop star looked back at her early days and reminisced on how …

Earlier this month, Chappell Roan closed her rousing Grammy Awards speech with a pointed question: “Labels, we got you, but do you got us?” That one moment of advocating for artists to have access to livable wages and healthcare has already inspired tangible results in the music industry. Universal Music …

In the summer of 2004, Kevin Barnes was in need of some encouragement. After eight years and six albums, their Athens, Georgia-based indie band, Of Montreal, was just beginning to put together an audience. Barnes, newly married with a baby on the way, wasn’t sure it made sense to keep …

Halsey went all out in their planning: they dyed their hair blue, kicked Joe Jonas off the guest list, and scrapped an appearance from a child choir singer performing “Hallelujah.” Come to find out, they didn’t actually need to do any of it. See, Halsey was under the impression that …

Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), out now on Hulu, features interviews with artists like D’Angelo, Q-Tip, and Andre 3000 talking about the Family Stone legend but doesn’t feature Stone himself reflecting on his legacy. During a Q&A for the documentary, producer Joseph Patel …

“When I started out, I wanted to be really famous,” Janis Ian says in the trailer for her upcoming documentary. “So naive.” In the exclusive trailer above, Varda Bar-Kar’s Janis Ian: Breaking Silence follows the singer-songwriter’s career that kicked off in 1965, when a 14-year-old from New Jersey dropped the …

Macklemore released “Fucked Up” on Thursday, another impassioned protest song about societal ills. On the three-minute, self-produced track, Macklemore opines, “The world’s on fire, we don’t own the water y’all,” a literal commentary on the LA wildfires and a metaphorical evaluation of class disparity. Elsewhere on the horn-driven track, the …

Toronto punk act Pup will return in 2025 with their new album Who Will Look After the Dogs?, their first LP in three years. Ahead of the album’s release on May 2, the foursome have shared the first single “Hallways,” which singer Stefan Babcock penned in the immediate aftermath of …