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Jerry Lee Lewis turned 85 years old on September 29th — a remarkable milestone, especially considering that Lewis was one of the hardest-living of all the original Fifties rock & roll pioneers. He suffered a serious stroke last year, but regained his ability to play the piano in time to …

Edward “Bunny” Lee — the influential producer who both expanded reggae‘s sound and helped proliferate the genre’s audience worldwide — has died at the age of 79. Trojan Records, which licensed Lee’s Jamaican productions in the U.K., confirmed the producer’s death. While Lee’s exact cause of death is unknown, he …

In “Letter to You,” the title track from Bruce Springsteen‘s upcoming album, he sings about writing a thoughtful missive in “ink and blood.” Those two ingredients, which work together to propel his willingness to pour his heart onto an empty page, have fueled so many great Springsteen songs, and on …

American music fans racked up an unprecedented one trillion streams in 2019, drawing in $28.2 million per day for the U.S. music industry. Yet that’s still not enough to take the industry back to its CD-era glory days. The Digital Music Association (DiMA) — a trade body whose membership comprises …

After seeing the biggest debut of 2020, Taylor Swift‘s Folklore spends a second week atop the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, pulling in 139,700 units the week of July 31st through August 6th. Unlike in Folklore‘s first week, when it saw over 600,000 album sales, most of its second-week …

The Bird and the Bee’s Inara George has enlisted Dave Grohl for a new duet version of her song “Sex in Cars.” The track marks the first in a series of planned releases for George’s “Road Angel Project” benefit, which will raise money for the Sweet Relief’s COVID-19 fund for …

“We were hungry to get back in the studio,” says Jimmy Buffett, who just put out his first album in seven years, Life on the Flip Side,which aims to recapture some of the storytelling verve and loose rootsiness of his early work.In late spring, Buffett was riding out isolation in …

Muddy Waters‘ former house in Chicago will be renovated into a museum and community center, the Hyde Park Herald reported on Tuesday. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has given a $50,000 grant to transform the six-time Grammy-winning blues musician’s brick house — situated on 4339 S. Lake Park Ave. …

Will music business icon Jimmy Iovine become fashion’s next mogul? Iovine announced this week that he and his wife Liberty Ross, a model and actress, have made a majority investment in ready-to-wear women’s fashion brand The Vampire’s Wife. The news comes three months after FaZe Clan, an online retailer of …

Selena Gomez and Trevor Daniel take quarantine music videos to a whole other dimension in their new visual for “Past Life.” Directed by Grammy-nominated filmmaking team Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, the clip starts out simple enough, with Gomez and Daniel singing to each other over Instagram Live. But things …