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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” — …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

YBN Cordae teamed up with Anderson .Paak and The Roots to perform his brand new single “RNP” on The Tonight Show. The track, which comes off rapper’s forthcoming debut album,The Lost Boy, and was produced by J. Cole, dropped the same day as the late night performance. In the clip, …

Sturgill Simpson announced his new album Sound & Fury Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con, where the country singer also previewed the LP’s Netflix-bound companion anime film. The album is Simpson’s first since his 2016 LP A Sailor’s Guide To Earth, which won the Grammy for Best Country Album along with …