Music

100 Gecs and fellow pop experimentalist Dorian Electra try to connect over video chat in the bonkers new video for the “Gec 2 Ü” remix set to appear on 100 Gecs’ upcoming project, 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues. The clip finds Dorian Electra calling a special 100 Gecs …

Lizzo covered Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” during Global Citizen’sOne World: Together at Home special to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The eight-hour concert helped raise $127 million to help the World Health Organization’s efforts to fight the pandemic around the globe. As leaves blew in the wind …

Last year, Robbie Robertson played “The Weight” with musicians around the world, including Ringo Starr, Japanese guitar virtuoso Char, Congo soul singer Mermens Mosengo, and others. It’s been streamed more than 8 million times on YouTube. Many of those streams happened in the past month; Mark Johnson, co-founder of Playing …

The Weeknd unveiled a new remix of his After Hours single, “Blinding Lights,” reworked by Major Lazer, as well as new video for his previously-released version of “Heartless” featuring Lil Uzi Vert. The new version of “Blinding Lights” finds Major Lazer stretching the original’s breakneck pulse into a lurching dancehall …

Diet Cig are through with empty promises on “Who Are You?” The track appears on the duo’s upcoming album Do You Wonder About Me?out May 1st via Frenchkiss Records. “Who are you to say I’m sorry/When we both know you’d do it all over again,” Alex Luciano sings, riding along …

Brendan Benson gets soaked in the animated video for “Richest Man.” The song is off his upcoming album Dear Life, out April 24th on Third Man Records. Directed by New York cartoonist Wartella, the clip features Benson in a dilapidated home as picture frames fall off the wall and a …

Polly Samson — wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his long-time co-lyricist — originally planned on promoting her new novel Theater for Dreamers with a large public event at Central Hall Westminster in London this week. When coronavirus shut-in orders made that impossible, she set up a livestream …

With COVID-19 sweeping the globe, Puerto Rico residents are under an especially strict lockdown — and Bad Bunny is no exception: The Latin Grammy-winning singer announced Saturday that he would reschedule his YHLQMDLG arena shows in Puerto Rico’s Estadio Hiram Bithorn for October 30th and 31st. In spite of the …

Old Crow Medicine Show provide a rallying cry for the city of Nashville and a message of positivity for the world at large in the new song “Nashville Rising.” The string band’s Ketch Secor wrote the song in the days following a deadly tornado that touched down in the city, …

Like most small businesses that have had to shut down or alter their operations during the coronavirus pandemic, record stores have been forced to completely change the way they operate. Over the past two weeks, Nashville retailer Grimey’s New & Preloved Music, for example, has had to send its employees …