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Psych rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra have unveiled the new video for “Hunnybee,” named after the middle name of frontman Ruban Nielson’s daughter. In the new animated clip, a young woman is traveling alone on a train by scenic mountains and waterways while reading a book. Nielson’s daughter inspired the song’s …

Kanye West debuted his highly anticipated eighth studio album, Ye,at a star-studded listening party Thursday night in Wyoming. Ye’s guests include Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, Kid Cudi, Charlie Wilson and Willow Smith. The seven-song album, West’sfirst full-length release since 2016’s The Life of Pablo,runs 23 minutes, making it …

A few weeks ago, Sam Hunt teased to country DJ Bobby Bones that new music – particularly a track called “Nothing Lasts Forever – would be emerging soon in the wake of his just-released single “Downtown’s Dead.” On Saturday, he made good on that promise, playing “Nothing Lasts Forever” at …

When Snow Patrol released their last album, Fallen Empires, Obama was still in his first term, Justin Bieber was 17 years old and Game of Thrones had just aired its first season. The thematically ambitious follow-up, Wildness, is finally out, but where have they been for the last seven years? …

Rising pop star Julia Michaels performed a smoky medley of her songs “Issues” and “Jump” with the newly-mintedwinner ofThe Voice,Brynn Cartelli, during the Season 14 finale. The singers opened with the dramatic pop ballad “Issues,” trading vocals over a bed of strings. Michaels sang in her highest high-octaves down to …

Instead of a planned “moment of silence” during the opening of Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, Texas-born Kelly Clarkson, who hosted the show, paid an emotional tribute to the victims of Friday’s high-school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, with a plea for “a moment of action.” Barely able to hold …

There was a joyful mood inside New York City’s Hard Rock Café where a giant collection of Prince‘s belongs was being sold off as part of Julien’s Auctions’ presentation Music Icons: Property From the Life and Career of Princeon Friday. When a ceramic Mardi Gras–style doll that was featured as …

One day after releasing “Downtown’s Dead,” his first single in 15 months, Sam Hunt sat with SiriusXM host Storme Warren to discuss the new song, which depicts a guy feeling the emptiness of his constant-party existence. “There’s that line in the bridge: ‘What am I doing with my life,’ where …

Devin Dawson likes to say he has a tendency to over-write his songs. It’s a slight perfectionist streak that’s been with him at least since his teenage years – back when he was playing bass in a heavy metal band called Shadow of the Colossus, working to master the intricate, …

One might assume someone with the studio studiousness of Donald Fagen – a man who infamously brought in seven session guitarists to attempt the solo on Steely Dan‘s “Peg” – would be approached to produce other people’s albums every other week. “Not so much,” the singer-keyboardist tells Rolling Stone. “And …