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UPDATE (12/15): Global Citizen has announced that this year’s honorees will include Bryan Stevenson, Sir Elton John, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Warren Buffett, Sesame Workshop, and the Co-Founders of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Katie Couric, Miley Cyrus, Oprah Winfrey, Scott Evans, and …

Stevie Nicks has revealed a lyric video for the piano version of “Show Them the Way,” dedicating it to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The video features the song’s lyrics splashed across the screen in a variety of fonts, as Nicks seeks guidance from historical figures. “I don’t know if …

Bonnie Raitt and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons are among the artists set to perform at a special free virtual concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of the famed folk label, Arhoolie Records, December 10th at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The concert will air on YouTube and will be hosted by …

Since the nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards were announced on Tuesday afternoon, the conversation among fans, pop critics, and industry insiders has circled around one notable absence: the Weeknd. The Canadian pop star’s After Hours, released in March, was one of 2020’s biggest commercial success stories, with 1.8 billion …

Perfume Genius recruits Pigman (Marc LeBlanc) for his surreal new “Some Dream” video. Charles Grant and Hunter Ray Barker directed the bizarre video, which follows the character as he navigates a warehouse, plays organ, watches footage of tornadoes on his laptop, poses menacingly in front of a burning house, eats …

Lewis Capaldi made his American Music Awards performance debut with a rendition of “Before You Go” on Sunday. The Scottish singer-songwriter performed a stripped-down rendition of the ballad, with just a piano backing his voice as he sang into the nearly empty and echoing Microsoft Theatre. The isolated yet intimate …

For those who still scan liner notes in the streaming era, one credit on Neil Young’s new ArchivesVol. II box — “Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: Vocals” — will be both familiar and intriguing. The sight of those names on the collection, which dives into Young’s 1972–1976 work, is hardly …

K evin Parker remembers hearing his older brother play Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream when they were growing up in Perth, Australia. “It was like an indescribable cross between optimistic and sad music,” says Parker. “All my friends were into Rage Against the Machine. Siamese Dream was my internal headspace album, …

Dolly Parton has reaffirmed her living-saint status with the news on Tuesday that she may be partly responsible for helping supply some hope during the Covid-19 pandemic. In April, the Country Music Hall of Fame member donated $1 million to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center toward Covid-19 research, funding that, …

Amigo the Devil has announced plans for the follow-up to his 2018 debut Everything Is Fine. Titled Born Against, the new project will be released February 19th, 2021. Born Against brought the Austin-based Amigo the Devil to Dallas, where he cut tracks at Modern Electric with producer Beau Bedford (Texas …