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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 …

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 …

Bob Dylan, who hasn’t released an original song since 2012’s Tempest, unexpectedly dropped a previously unheard, nearly 17-minute-long new track, “Murder Most Foul,” late Thursday night. Dylan didn’t say exactly when the song was recorded, but his delicate vocal delivery resembles the way he’s been singing in his live shows …

Just weeks ago, Yola joined Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, and other country music stalwarts onstage at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works, raising money to help those affected by the recent tornado that had ravaged the area. Since then, a much bigger crisis has unfolded across the world. While it’s not clear …

Shortly after testing positive for COVID-19, Jackson Browne dropped a new song, “A Little Soon to Say.” The track will be available digitally on Friday, March 27th, and is featured on his upcoming album, slated for October 9th. “I wanna see you holding out your light/I wanna see you light …

Over the weekend, a person with a desire to stir up chaos in the middle of a pandemic deemed it an opportune time to rehash one of the most annoyingly lengthy feuds in celebrity history. To do that, this unknown party leaked what appears to be the full, infamous phone …

The Foo Fighters reportedly faced something entirely new while making their upcoming 10th album: ghosts. Dave Grohl recently told Mojo that the house in Encino, California — a Forties construction — where they recorded had a sinister past. “When we walked into the house in Encino, I knew the vibes …

Gal Gadot has brought a group of celebrities together for an all-star cover of John Lennon‘s “Imagine.” Speaking on her Instagram, the Wonder Woman star shared that she has been bored after six days of self-quarantine. “These past few days got me feeling a bit philosophical,” she said. “You know …

There’s potentially no artist who more accurately sums up the national mood than one Dominique Armani Jones. The Atlanta rapper, better known as Lil Baby, is the modern bard of exhaustion. Across years and songs, he’s rewritten, recontextualized, and perfected a central thesis — that being tired is, in and …

Katy Perry has won her appeal in the ongoing plagiarism dispute over her 2013 hit “Dark Horse.” In 2014, the pop star was sued by the Christian rapper Flame (real name Marcus Gray), who claimed Perry and others pulled an eight-note musical phrase (known as an ostinato) from his song …