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Nilüfer Yanya sings from 38,000 feet in the video for “Crash.” The track is off her upcoming EP Feeling Lucky? out December 11th via ATO Records. Co-written and produced by Nick Hakim, the song’s video features Yanya as a flight attendant on board a plane. (Neck scarf? Check. Pilot wings? …

Just one year after Toto announced their breakup following a gig in Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House, the band has announced a reunion with a radically revised lineup. Founding guitarist Steve Lukather and long-time vocalist Joseph Williams are returning to the fold, but founding keyboardists Steve Porcaro and David Paich are …

In the preface of the Contract With Black America that Ice Cube published in late August — amidst the ongoing global civil-rights uprising — professor and economist Darrick Hamilton wrote about what the 22-page document hoped to accomplish. Encouraged by the reinvigorated movement he’d seen around the world, Hamilton wrote …

The typically unflappable Elton John released an endearing video of him struggling to get through a sentence while narrating the new chapter he wrote for the paperback edition of his autobiography, Me. The chapter finds John recounting the past few years of his life, covering his biopic Rocketman and massive …

Friday marks the 80th anniversary of John Lennon‘s birth. To celebrate, his family is releasing Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes, a box set containing 36 songs from the late Beatle’s solo career, newly remixed from the master tapes. It was executive-produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and produced by Sean …

Ahead of their new albumAs Long As You Are, out this Friday, Future Islands played their single “For Sure” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Thursday night. Sam Herring, the band’s frontman, has become notorious for his passionate late night performances, and this one was no different. Herring …

Future Islands have dropped a new single, “Born in a War,” ahead of the release of their sixth album As Long As You Are this Friday, October 9th. The song arrives with an animated video created by artist Wayne White and his son, Woodrow White, that was six years in …

Darius Rucker and Reba McEntire have been announced as co-hosts for the 54th annual CMA Awards. The ceremony will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Music City Center, airing November 11th on ABC. This will be the fifth time hosting the event for McEntire, a six-time CMA Award winner, and the …

Internet Money, the L.A. producer collective co-founded by Taz Taylor and Nick Mira, lead this month’s Breakthrough 25 Chart after the success of their collaborative debut album, B4 the Storm. From August to September, Internet Money gained over 21 million on-demand audio streams. B4 the Storm has been a massive …

To celebrate what would have been John Lennon‘s 80th birthday on October 9th, the Morrison Hotel Gallery announced the exhibit In His Life. The show opens Thursday, online and at the Morrison Hotel’s New York and Los Angeles locations by appointment only. The exhibit traces Lennon’s beginnings with the Beatles …