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Following an uproar from Motörhead’s fans and surviving members, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has added drummer Mikkey Dee and guitarist Phil Campbell to the list of eligible band members on the ballot for the class of 2020 nominations. Both Dee and Campbell weren’t included in the band’s …

The man sitting across from me in a burgundy Def Jam letterman jacket and matching Jordan 12 Retro Bordeauxs has changed irrevocably since we met back in May. YK Osiris has shed much of the boyish charm he possessed back then; now, he’s full of the unique brand of self-confidence …

Mountain Goats performed a jaunty new song “Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light” in John Coltrane’s hometown of Hamlet, North Carolina. The clip is part of In the Water, a live session series in which musicians perform in meaningful areas of the state. The clip features the musicians inside Hamlet …

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has linked up with his bandmate Dave Grohl and Yes singer Jon Davison for an eclectic new rocker, “Crossed the Line.” The track will appear on Hawkins’ new cameo-filled album with his band the Coattail Riders, Get the Money, out November 8th via Shanabelle/RCA Records. …

The Foo Fighters have dropped another surprise EP from their Foo Files archival series. This one, titled 01020225,features four tracks, including covers of the Psychedelic Furs‘ “Sister Europe” and the B-52s’ “Planet Claire.” It also includes the band’s “The One” and “Win or Lose.” “The One” originally appeared on the …

Sam Hunt plays a man smitten in his new song “Kinfolks,” released on Thursday afternoon. It’s the Georgia native’s first release since “Downtown’s Dead” came out in May 2018. Hunt wrote the song with his frequent collaborators Zach Crowell, Jerry Flowers, and Josh Osborne, imagining a man who falls hard …

Halsey gets sucked into a world of her own making in her new video for “Graveyard,” off of upcoming album Manic, out January 17th. She previously released a time-lapse visualizer for the song in September. The fantasy-infused clip, directed by Anton Tammi, starts off with Halsey sketching an illustration in …

50 Cent is producing a new celebrity profile docuseries, including an installment chronicling the rise and fall of controversial rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine. Moment in Time, produced via 50’s G-Unit Film & Television production company, will feature six to eight one-hour stories per episode. No release date or network information has …

Ginger Baker was a paradox: a gamechanging rock drummer who insisted that he “never played rock,” a forefather of heavy metal who couldn’t stand the genre, and a Londoner who thoroughly assimilated African drumming styles. That’s why, if you only know him in one context — with barnstorming blues-rock trio …

Orchestras are indie rock’s new Marshall stacks. That’s fitting on a lot of levels — as a satisfying class-action appropriation of elitist cultural tropes, as a deconstruction of those same tropes, and as an elevation of collectivism over American myths of individualism and exceptionalism that’ve lately been twisted into such …