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Otis Rush, one of the pioneering guitarists of the Chicago blues scene, died Saturday from complications from a stroke he suffered in 2003. He was 84. Rush’s wife, Masaki Rush, confirmed her husband’s death on his website. A note read, “Known as a key architect of the Chicago ‘West Side …

After teasing the song for a year, Robyn has finally released “Honey,” which will appear on her forthcoming album of the same name. Like some of the Swedish pop stars biggest hits, “Honey” is both extremely catchy and – excuse the pun – bittersweet. “But the waves come in and …

Mumford & Sons performed their new single “Guiding Light” and chatted with the host during Monday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The song appears on their forthcoming fourth album, Delta, out on November 16th via Gentleman of the Road/Glassnote. The Mumfords performed the acoustic-driven number with the Roots adding …

Phish have announced they will once again stage a New Year’s Eve run at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The band will play December 28th through December 31st, bringing their total amount of shows at the historic venue to 60. Fans can enter a request form for the notoriously tough …

Cardi B joins old friend Pardison Fontaine in the flex-heavy video for their single “Backin’ It Up.” She credits Fontaine with helping form her voice as a rapper. In the video, Fontaine enters a pizza parlor only to immediately steal another man’s girl. But he states his case to the …

Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest Thursday to voluntary manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of Terry Carter in Compton in 2015, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The 53-year-old Knight, who became famous helming the gangster rap institution Death Row Records, agreed to serve 28 years in …

Carrie Underwood, Cry Pretty The latest album from American Idol‘s first “country” winner is “the next step, a modern country album pivoting into pop and r&b without going full Taylor, while also showing the kind of character more mega-stars should aspire to,”writes Will Hermes. “The songcraft is grade-A mall soundtracking, …

Nile Rodgers reaches back to New Jack Swing, the brittle fusion of hip-hop and R&B that ruled the second half of the Eighties, on the new single “Sober” with his group Chic. Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that: This is a disco pioneer playing New Jack Swing with …

In the fall of 2016, Mac Miller had a pleasant phone chat with Rolling Stone while he strolled around a shopping mall in South Africa, where he had a tour stop. He had just released a new album, The Divine Feminine,and was going strong with his then-girlfriend, Ariana Grande. We …

Alt-J and Danny Brown explore how our governments perpetuate evil in their disturbing, computer-animated video for the Alchemist/Trooko version of “Deadcrush.” Brown stars in director Jeron Braxton’s warped clip, which draws on the aesthetic of Nineties video games. The piece is filled with demons, mutant dogs and government agents filtering …