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Ain’t it hard keeping it so hardcore? Lady Gaga is riding one of the weirdest career resurrections ever witnessed. Not so long ago, she looked totally over, coated in glittery loser dust. But look at her now — she’s America’s cowgirl sweetheart, an Oscar contender, riding the blockbuster success of …

Ex-Journey singer Steve Perry has filed a lawsuit against his former associate Phil Brown to prevent the release of music they recorded together in 1991. According to legal documents obtained by The Blast, Perry claims that the songs were mere demos they recorded on an 8-track tape recorder in Brown’s …

Former Fifth Harmony singer Normani has teamed with 6lack for a brooding new break-up song, “Waves.” The track opens with an atmospheric mix of synths, but that levity is soon counterbalanced by skittering percussion and throbbing bass bombs. Both Normani and 6lack deliver deft vocal performances in which they unravel …

YG will continue the tour in support of his 2018 album Stay Dangerous with a winter 2019 North American trek. The latest string of 19 dates begin January 17th in Vancouver, British Columbia and circle the U.S. and Canada – with two-night stands in Portland and Denver – before the …

There’s a tradition of experimental music in which avant-garde ideas are also tender and inviting – think Clara Rockmore, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Speigel, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wyatt, John Fahey. This duo project feels rooted in that notion. Lattimore’s already made one of the year’s best LPs, the deliciously hypnoticHundreds of …

EDITORS’ PICK: The Beatles,White Album: Super Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition “There’s a moment onthe Beatles’ new ‘Super Deluxe’ edition ofthe White Albumthat sums up all the glories of their 1968 masterpiece,” writes Rob Sheffield. “And weirdly, that moment is ‘Good Night.’ There’s always been something mysterious about ‘Good Night’ — …

Morrissey performed a swooning cover of the Pretenders‘ 1982 single “Back on the Chain Gang” on Wednesday’s Late Late Show With James Corden. The singer clapped his hands and softly bounced from side to side while nailing Chrissie Hynde’s signature “oh-oh” vocals. His backing band – all wearing T-shirts that …

One of the strengths that Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, the trio known as Pistol Annies, have in their arsenal is a blend of impeccable, often spine-chilling harmony. And rarely is that more potently evident than when the three perform acoustically, as in the above clip for “Best …

James Corden donned a flashy outfit, covered his face in makeup and tried to temper the wild and crazy tone of the signature Kiss track “Rock and Roll All Nite” during a performance with the band on The Late Late Show Monday. Corden’s middle-aged remix found him trading lyrics with …

EDITOR’S PICK: Pistol Annies,Interstate Gospel “The ethos of the Pistol Annies, who steep their classicist country — rife with despair and misfortune — in rootsy arrangements, has not been welcomed within the mainstream confines of the genre in some time,” writes Jonathan Bernstein. “The Pistol Annies’ solution? Doubling down on …