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Two years ago, Omar Apollo was sitting in the attic where he was living in the small town of Hobart, Indiana, with his guitar and laptop. He recorded a two-minute marvel of achingly tender R&B called “Ugotme,” which a friend persuaded him to upload to Spotify. The next day, the …

Slipknot proclaim themselves “the bitter, the maladjusted and the wise, fighting off a generation too uptight” on their menacing new song “Birth of the Cruel.” The track will appear on the metal band’s upcoming sixth LP, We Are Not Your Kind, out Friday, August 9th. “Birth of the Cruel” — …

President Trump on Friday morning gloated that the Baltimore home of House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) had been burglarized. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who in December stepped down as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, did not approve. “This is so unnecessary,” she tweeted, along with a rolling-eyes …

In the middle of January, with temperatures hovering around zero degrees, John Smith and his colleagues at Smithsonian Folkways drove a truck up to a 19th century homestead in Sharon, Connecticut to pick up a record label. For over 50 years, the remolded barn and carriage house had been the …

Dan Auerbach spent the years between Black Keys’ new album, Let’s Rock, and 2012’s Turn Blue recording album after album in his Nashville studio, most of them far more rootsy, layered and restrained than much of his band’s catalog. But to return to the Black Keys‘ sound — and a …

Summer loving is the vibe on Gryffin’s new single “OMG,” which features Carly Rae Jepsen on vocals. The glossy synth-pop number, produced by Gryffin, evokes a sultry sensibility as Jepsen croons, “I love it/ When you touch me now/ I go from zero to a million/ When you dim the …

UPDATE: Connie Britton, Nina Dobrev, Becky G, Dakota Johnson, Becky Lynch,Aasif Mandvi, Bridget Moynahan, Kal Penn, Erin Richards, Seth Rollins and Savannah Sellers have all signed on to co-host this year’s Global Citizen Festival alongside Hugh Jackman Deborra-lee Furness. Singer-songwriter David Grey and K-pop group NCT 127 will also perform. …

John Krasinski is back as Jack Ryan in a second season of Amazon Prime Video‘s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. In the first trailer for the upcoming episodes, Krasinski can be seen getting in on the action, jumping out of a plane, chasing baddies across a roof and sneaking around in …

They were dreaming when they broke stuff; forgive them if they went astray. The riotous kids of Woodstock ’99 are all pushing 40 now, and maybe they’ll pour a little extra lighter fluid on the grill this weekend in memoriam (they can come back, baby – rap-rock never forgets). Twenty …

Travis Scott wanders through the eerie aftermath of a ritzy party in the new video for his Astroworld track “Wake Up,” directed by Jonah Hill. The black-and-white clip finds Scott wandering through a massive mansion littered with lifeless bodies dressed in suits and gowns. The already-confounding scene gets a healthy …