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This year’s Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals may be canceled due to COVID-19, but a virtual event will take place from July 31st through August 2nd. Folk on Revival Weekend will kick off on Friday, July 31st, with Mavis 80, a birthday celebration for Mavis Staples. The event was filmed …

Ricky Reed released “Real Magic,” a gliding, double-time collaboration with Terrace Martin and St. Panther, on Tuesday. Reed is best known as the songwriter-producer behind Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty,” Lizzo‘s “Good as Hell,” and Halsey‘s “Bad at Love,” among other hits; he will release his solo debut, The Room, in …

The Flaming Lips are getting as patriotic as the Flaming Lips can get on their upcoming 21st studio album, American Head. The record is currently set for release on September 11 — and, Friday, they’re out with “My Religion Is You.” “The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma. We never thought …

The Dirty Projectors released their new EP Flight Tower — the second of the band’s five planned EPs in 2020 — a day early Thursday, and with it a new video for the track “Self Design.” While the video was likely shot during quarantine, singer Felicia Douglass and the band …

School may be out, but music teachers are still bringing good cheer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben Millington, an instructor at England’s Telford Priory School, led his students in a lockdown cover of Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing,” which he edited together as a music video and uploaded to YouTube …

Beyoncé has penned an open letter to the Attorney General of Kentucky to seek justice for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT in Louisville who was killed in an unannounced police raid on her boyfriend’s apartment. The police officers involved in the shooting have not been charged in Taylor’s death. “It …

Bob Dylan‘s Q&A with the New York Times on Friday marks his first major interview in three years, following a conversation with Bill Flanagan on his own website in 2017. In it, he tells historian Douglas Brinkley about his upcoming album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, including the sprawling, 17-minute closer …

Aluna has shared her “fearless” new song “Warrior,” the latest single from the AlunaGeorge singer’s upcoming debut solo album. “Warrior” was scheduled to arrive last week, but Aluna held the track due to the ongoing George Floyd protests; instead, the single is now a tribute to the black women marching …

Anthrax will mark the 30th anniversary of their fifth album, Persistence of Time with a comprehensive reissue that features many previously unreleased tracks. The original album featured a generally darker, more brooding sound for the thrash-metal group, as well as a hit cover of Joe Jackson’s “Got the Time” The …

Trey Songz shines a light on police brutality and institutionalized racism on his new track “2020 Riots: How Many Times,” the singer’s response to the police killing of George Floyd. “Three or four nights ago I woke up in the middle of my sleep…I couldn’t sleep. My chest was hurting. …