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Ziggy Marley is a global music royal with a deep Rolodex. His latest is a children’s album that, like his 2009 release Family Time, is full of famous friends and very kind vibes and intentions. Marley says he wanted to reflect the spirit of his four-year-old son, Isaiah, and to …

Carrie Underwood performed a medley of hits by iconic women artists in country music at the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards, including Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, and Martina McBride. The Entertainer of the Year nominee took the stage at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry …

Michael McDonald will host his own Home Alone: A Special Solo Concert livestream on September 30th. Tickets for the gig — which will feature McDonald tackling songs from his own catalog as well as the Doobie Brothers and “maybe a cover or two and the stories behind them” — are …

Janelle Monáe has been gerrymandered. Back when Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was running for office in 2017, last-minute changes to where she qualified to vote kept her from casting a ballot for Bottoms. Stacey Abrams‘ widely contested gubernatorial race against Brian Kemp a year later proved triggering for Monáe …

New Order released “Be a Rebel” this morning. It’s their first new song since 2015’s Music Complete. “In tough times we wanted to reach out with a new song,” frontman Bernard Sumner said in a statement. “We can’t play live for a while, but music is still something we can …

Billy Joel has pushed his postponed monthly shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden to start again in the fall of 2021. The singer initially postponed his spring residency dates to start in the fall of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic; with Covid still making indoor concerts impossible, Joel …

Finneas has released a new song and music video titled “What They’ll Say About Us,” an anthem dedicated to the past few months of sweeping social change and protests for racial justice in the United States while much of the country is in lockdown. “I wrote this song in June …

In late July, Garth Brooks held a superfluous press conference to make a proclamation. Having successfully set the record for most CMA Entertainer of the Year wins with seven, Brooks, at his humblebraggiest, was stepping away to allow someone else a shot at the title. He caught a lot of …

CNCO performed “Beso” at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, a new song they surprise-released on Thursday. In what marks the boy band’s debut performance at the ceremony, the five-piece group performed at MTV’s drive-in concert setup in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, along the East River. Members Joel Pimental, Richard Camacho, …

More than any other pop star of the 2000s, Lil Wayne thrived in the chaos left behind by a rapidly changing music industry. When streaming was still a dream and physical CD sales were cratering, the New Orleans rapper consumed and re-contextualized everything from the Beatles to Beyoncé. It was …