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Hailee Steinfeld has shared the video for her new single “Wrong Direction,” directed by Alexandre Moors (Miley Cyrus’s “Slide Away,” Kendrick Lamar’s “i”). The stark clip features only a few close-up shots of Steinfeld, naked and in a fetal position inside a bathtub. From there, she delivers an emotional performance …

Ethan Russell remembers getting a call from writer Jonathan Cott in 1968. “He said, ‘Do you want to photograph my next interview?’” says Russell, who had at that point photographed only one band: psychedelic San Francisco band Blue Cheer. Cott’s interview happened to be with Mick Jagger for Rolling Stone. …

Van Halen fans were stunned this week when a previously unreleased take of “Runnin’ with the Devil,” complete with an extended guitar solo and an alternate David Lee Roth vocal, surfaced on YouTube. “Van Halen Fans rejoice!” wrote YouTube user Groovefunkel Second Helping. “As a huge Van Halen fan, it …

Michael Stipe celebrated his 60th birthday Saturday with the release of “Drive to the Ocean,” the former R.E.M. singer’s second new song in three months following a long musical dormancy. Stipe also shared the video he directed for his second-ever solo single. Like his previous track “Your Capricious Soul,” Stipe …

Most of Nirvana will reunite at The Art of Elysium’s annual Heaven Is Rock and Roll gala in Los Angeles, Saturday January 4th. Dave Grohl will perform with Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, with additional performances by Beck, St. Vincent, Marilyn Manson, L7, Cheap Trick and Grohl’s daughter, Violet. The …

Three years to the day after the death of George Michael, the singer’s sister Melanie Panayiotou has died. The siblings’ older sister, Yioda, found Melanie on Wednesday, the evening of Christmas Day, and notified the London ambulance service. Melanie, a hairdresser and makeup artist who shared the responsibilities for Michael’s …

Ozzy Osbourne recreates his fight for sobriety in the new video for “Under the Graveyard,” the first single from the rocker’s forthcoming album, Ordinary Man, out next year. Directed by Jonas Akerlund, the semi-autobiographical clip stars Jack Kilmer as a young Ozzy, who, in 1979, sneaks away to a West …

Mariah Carey stopped by The Late Late Show to perform her Christmas number “Oh Santa,” which comes off the singer’s 2010 holiday album Merry Christmas II You. Carey kept things festive during the appearance, wearing a red gown and joined by energetic young dancers wearing red and green outfits. Accompanied …

Hayley Kiyoko has dropped another song from herI’m Too Sensitive for This Shit project: “Runaway.” She launched with the song “I Wish” over the summer and the last single will come out in January. On the catchy song, Kiyoko wants honesty from her partner. She is falling hard, feeling “nauseous” …

Vampire Weekend enlisted a children’s choir to help them mash up their song, “Harmony Hall,” with the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s holiday staple “Christmas Time Is Here” on The Late Late Show With James Corden Wednesday. The performance opened with the choir singing the refrain from “Christmas Time Is Here,” ending …