Neil Young has again voiced his disapproval of his music featuring at Donald Trump rallies after the rocker’s “Like a Hurricane” and “Rockin’ in the Free World” were played during the president’s Mount Rushmore event Friday night. “This is NOT ok with me…,” Young tweeted after video of his music …

Father John Misty will drop an EP of covers, Anthem +3, on Bandcamp this Friday for one day only as part of the music platform’s “No Share Revenue Day.” Misty, a.k.a. Josh Tillman, covers two Leonard Cohen songs on the EP — “Anthem” from 1992’s The Future and “One of …

Rep. Jeramey Anderson represents Mississippi‘s 110th House District in the Mississippi Legislature. When he was sworn in at age 22 in 2013, Anderson became the youngest black candidate ever elected to a legislature in the United States. In the years since, he’s seen multiple efforts to remove the Confederate emblem …

Kill Rock Stars have released Elliott Smith‘s “Some Song,” a track from the late songwriters’ previously unreleased live album,Live at Umbra Penumbra, out August 28th. “Some Song” first appeared on the “Needle in the Hay” seven-inch single in 1995. “Got a rock song I’d like to play,” Smith tells the …

Beginning Monday, Nashville residents are required to wear masks, according to a new order by the Metro Health Department. There’s a lot of exemptions, so the mandate is more a helpful suggestion than stern commandment, even if failure to comply can earn you a misdemeanor citation. But one local musician …

On May 27th, the killing of George Floyd sparked a resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis — and eventually, across the United States. As artists throughout the Anglophone music industry voiced their opposition to racism and police brutality, some of the most prominent voices in Latin music fumbled …

One-time child stars — some who made the jump to acting as adults, and others who didn’t — share their personal stories in the trailer for Showbiz Kids, an upcoming HBO documentary that promises a “raw look” at the child actors. The documentary premieres on HBO on July 14th. Among …

Last week, the ASCAP Pop Awards — a major songwriting awards show, closely watched by the entire music business — awarded Publisher of the Year to independently owned music company Kobalt. Considering that Kobalt’s songwriters helped write smash hits of 2019 like Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” and Lil Nas X …

Kenneth Lonergan, Marcia Gay Harden and Zosia Mamet will partake in the next round of the ongoing livestream series The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, with this installment raising money for the Release Aging People in Prison campaign. This marks the 13th round in the series and it will stream …

Kelsey Waldon spelled out her origin story in the personal song “Kentucky, 1988,” one of many high points on her latest album, White Noise/White Lines. The songwriter returns to her home state, and her tiny town of Monkey’s Eyebrow, for a new video for the track, retracing the steps she …