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311 have announced the dates for their “Live From the Ride” tour. The 36-date tour launches on August 21st in Camden, New Jersey, and runs into the fall before the trek wraps up at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California on October 17th. Special guests Iration and Iya Terra will tour in support of 311

Happy 50th anniversary to Paul and Linda McCartney’s Ram, an album so divisive that it’s either despised or defended to the death — there is no in-between on this one. Rolling Stone famously described Macca’s second solo LP as “incredibly inconsequential” and “monumentally irrelevant,” while John Lennon called it “muzak” and mocked the pastoral cover

Janet Jackson’s black “bubble” shirt from her and Michael Jackson’s iconic “Scream” video sold for $125,000 at an auction this weekend featuring over 1,000 items from the singer’s personal collection. Janet wore numerous outfits in the “Scream” video — which, upon its release in 1995, was the most expensive music video ever — with all

Eric Clapton detailed his “disastrous” health experience after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine and blamed “the propaganda” for overstating the safety of the vaccine in a letter the guitarist shared with an architect/anti-lockdown activist. Clapton previously shared his thoughts on the Covid-19 shutdown when he appeared on Van Morrison’s anti-lockdown song “Stand and Deliver” in December

Chance the Rapper virtually visited The Tonight Show Friday to talk about his upcoming concert film and play a game called Auto-Tune Up with host Jimmy Fallon. A week after Chance announced that his Magnificent Coloring World concert film would premiere exclusively at AMC Theatres this summer, the rapper discussed the movie just hours to

Hours after releasing their new album Delta Kream, the Black Keys appeared virtually on The Late Show to perform a pair of tracks from their covers LP. Guitarist Dan Auerbach, drummer Patrick Carney and their backing band of musicians huddled in a room to play R.L. Burnside’s “Going Down South” as well as their rendition

Tones And I has released a new single, “Won’t Sleep,” along with a spooky music video that is sure to cure your lingering Hocus Pocus nostalgia. Co-directed by Tones And I, Nick Zozakis and Liam Kelly, the video sees Tones and a friend stumbling upon an old haunted house in the woods. What they find

Before “country music outlaw” became just another outfit for would-be badasses to try on, Johnny Cash made it a job description. But among the seven arrests he accrued during his most tumultuous years, from the late 1950s to 1967, none was quite like the time he was arrested in Starkville, Mississippi while picking flowers on

Nicki Minaj’s Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape is now available for the first time on streaming services. Originally released in 2009, the new streaming version is expanded with new tracks, including “Seeing Green” featuring Drake and Lil Wayne, “Fractions,” and her remix of Skillibeng’s “Crocodile Teeth.” “Bitches act like they want action/heard they want action/bitch

Dead & Company have announced they’re hitting the road on a 2021 tour, kicking off August 16th in Raleigh, North Carolina, and running through Halloween, with a three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl on October 29th, 30th, and 31st. The supergroup consisting of John Mayer, Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, Oteil

Trojan Records is set to reissue its legendary 1971 collection The Trojan Story — a three-LP set that helped introduce the world to artists like Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, and Lee “Scratch” Perry — for its 50th anniversary this June. Long out-of-print, the 50-song anthology — due out June 18th — will be

Dave Grohl has had a lot of memorable Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nights during the past decade. In 2013, he donned a kimono and blond wig to induct Rush and rock out with them on “2112.” The next year, Nirvana entered the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility and he

Liz Phair has released “In There,” the latest track from her upcoming seventh studio album, Soberish. The simmering track, released with an animated lyric video, sees Phair contemplating her own vulnerability in the shadow of a new relationship. “Like smoke under the door/Like cold comes through the floor/You got in there,” she sings. Along with the

Rodney Crowell will drop a new album called Triage via his own RC1 label and Thirty Tigers on July 23rd. The first single, “Something Has to Change,” is out now. An urgent mid-tempo tune with particularly pointed lyrics, “Something Has to Change” addresses inequality and discord, conditions that influenced the rest of the writing on

Billie Eilish, the Killers, Lizzo, and Tame Impala are set to headline the 2021 Firefly Festival, which will take place September 23rd through the 26th at the Woodlands in Dover, Delaware. The lineup for the four-day festival also boasts Megan Thee Stallion, Roddy Ricch, Cage the Elephant, Wiz Khalifa, Machine Gun Kelly, Diplo, Portugal. the

Chrissie Hynde will be releasing an album of Bob Dylan covers, the Pretenders singer announced on Monday. The LP, titled Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan, will be out on May 21st via BMG. In a statement, Hynde explains that she recorded the album during the Covid-19 lockdown with her Pretenders bandmate

A posthumous DMX album, Exodus, produced by Swizz Beatz, will be released May 28th via Def Jam Recordings. The album will mark the first DMX album since 2012’s Undisputed and feature all-new original material. It will arrive nearly two months after DMX’s death, April 9th. “My brother X was one of the most pure and