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Lynyrd Skynyrd will revisit a classic Seventies performance with the release of a new DVD, CD, and LP set. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live at Knebworth ‘76 arrivesApril 9th. The concert was recorded at the long-running Knebworth, England, festival on August 21st, 1976, with a classic Skynyrd lineup of singer Ronnie Van …

Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican-born musician and label founder who helped popularize salsa around the world, died Monday, February 15th, The New York Times reports. He was 85. Pacheco’s wife, Maria Elena “Cuqui” Pacheco, confirmed his death on Facebook. In another post dated February 13th, the Pacheco family said the musician …

At age 12, Tevin Campbell — freshly signed to Warner on the strength of a voice that was already drawing comparisons to Michael Jackson — hopped on a call with Prince. “I remember riding in the limo and talking to him over the phone,” Campbell says. “I knew who Prince …

Manchester Orchestra will perform their most recent album, 2017’s A Black Mile to the Surface, in its entirety for a streamed performance. A trailer for the film shows the group facing each other while playing their song, “The Gold,” in a dizzying array of lights. The broadcast will take place …

When John Carpenter was making his movies Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween, he wrote and recorded the scores himself almost as an afterthought because he had to: there was no budget for a composer. Here he had these hair-raising, suspenseful stories with murderers wending through darkness, but it all …

It’s rare that we see a breakthrough on the charts quite like Olivia Rodrigo. While her debut single “Drivers License” writhes with heartache and desperation, on the charts, it’s been casually cool and unbothered at Number One on the RS 100 for three weeks in a row, millions of streams …

It’s been a year since Green Day played a set; they celebrated the release of their 2020 album Father of All… at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, California. It was supposed to be the beginning of a huge 2020 for the band, with a summer stadium tour planned — but …

In his 1996 documentary The Last Angel of History, filmmaker John Akomfrah creates a fictional character to explore the enduring and connected threads of Afrofuturism in Black music, from Parliament Funkadelic to Detroit Techno. A time-traveling figure called “The Data Thief” digs through the past for clues about the future, …

Anitta brings the tropics to the slopes in the new video for “Loco.” Shot in Aspen, Colorado, the clip features the Brazilian pop star skiing in a bikini, donning several outfits that include a purple fur coat and gold puffer jacket. She drinks champagne with her friends, twerks in the …

Duran Duran have dropped a futuristic new video for their recent cover of David Bowie‘s “Five Years.” Directed Gavin Elder, the video features the band accompanied by Bowie’s longtime pianist Mike Garson surrounded by swirling colors as they tear through the track. Elder shot each band member individually across Los …