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Mariah Carey discussed the alt-rock album she made in secret during the mid-Nineties during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday, September 28th. In a tweet over the weekend, Carey teased an excerpt from her new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, in which she explained that, …

“Reason doesn’t walk in,” Van Morrison sang eight years ago. “Passion’s everything, when you were born to sing.” That line is from the title track of Morrison’s Born to Sing: No Plan B, an album whose name, in light of the singer’s recent tirades against government restrictions on live music …

Kurt Vile was sitting in the Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville last December when he floated a pipe-dream idea to producer Dave Ferguson. Vile was slated to perform at the Grand Ole Opry with his hero John Prine two nights later and asked if Ferguson would call the songwriting legend …

The Beach Boys are the latest band to announce drive-in concerts, with three consecutive shows set for the fall. They’ll start in Southern California, performing at the Ventura County Fairgrounds on October 23rd and the Del Mar County Fairgrounds on October 24th. They’ll wrap up in Phoenix, Arizona, on October …

The filmed version of David Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway show,American Utopia, has a new trailer ahead of its arrival on HBO. Directed by Spike Lee, the film debuts Saturday, October 17th at 8:00-9:45 p.m. ET/PT on HBO, and will subsequently be available to stream on HBO Max. The short teaser gives …

B ruce Springsteen is standing on a gravel driveway outside his house, squinting up at the sky. This morning, an early-August thunderstorm straight out of one of his own metaphors rumbled through New Jersey’s Monmouth County, soaking Asbury Park, buffeting Freehold, leaving muddy ground here in the horsey acres of …

North Carolina rapper Rapsody has shared a scathing new song, “12 Problems,” which will appear on the upcoming Roc Nation social justice charity compilation, Reprise, out October 9th. “12 Problems” boasts production from Don Cannon and Cubeatz, who pair concrete drums and rumbling bass with a loop of disconcertingly heavenly …

Melissa Etheridge, who’s currently seeing pandemic-era success with her Etheridge TV live-streaming subscription platform, discusses her whole life and career on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. Among many other topics — including her time with Bruce Springsteen, navigating interviews in the days before she came out as …

The Recording Academy will honor the 2020 Special Merit Award recipients with Great Performances: Grammy Salute to Music Legends, a televised awards ceremony and tribute concert. Hosted by Jimmy Jam, the event will air Friday, October 16th at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS. The 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award honorees, as …

Phish’s Trey Anastasio — who collaborated with Frederick “Toots” Hibbert on a new version of the Maytals’ “Sweet and Dandy” in 2003 — penned a tribute to the reggae legend following Hibbert’s death Saturday. “I was so sad to wake up this morning and hear about the passing of Toots …