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Modern English will broadcast a virtual concert celebrating their 40th anniversary on September 25th and 26th. The performance will air at 8:30 p.m. ET on the 25th and 8:30 p.m. PT on the 26th, as well as 8:30 p.m. in U.K. European and Asian time zones on the 26th. The …

In his new book One Last Song, journalist Mike Ayers asks an array of artists an intriguing, but rarely considered question from the endless realm of pop music hypotheticals: If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be? The book, out October 13th …

Jacquees celebrated Labor Day by releasing a new mixtape,Exit 68, on SoundCloud. The 16-track collection is dedicated to the highway exit near where the R&B singer grew up in Decatur, Georgia. Jacquees doesn’t deviate from his typical formula here: Slow tempos, melismatic vocals that reach back to Lloyd, Avant, and …

Unless something very big changes in the next couple of months, 2020 will go down in history as the first year since 1977 that Bob Dylan didn’t perform live even a single time. This obviously isn’t by choice. He was supposed to play Japan in April and then travel across …

R.E.M., Phoebe Bridgers, Hayley Williams and more appear on the new compilationGood Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, available on Friday for 24 hours only as part of the Bandcamp Fridaysseries. The star-studded, 40-track comp boasts previously unreleased songs, demos, covers and remixes. It includes a live version …

Kevin Morby has shared “Campfire,” the first offering from his new album Sundowner, out October 16th via Dead Oceans. Directed by Johnny Eastlund and Dylan Isbell, the video features Morby at Castle Rock in Kansas — playing guitar and surrounded by limestone. He meets up with his partner, Katie Crutchfield …

“The veil before your face is falling,” Adia Victoria sings in her latest single, “and it’s falling fast.” The song, “South Gotta Change,” is both a tortured love letter and urgent call to action directed at the Nashville performer’s home region. Executive produced by T Bone Burnett, “South Gotta Change” …

Grammy-winning country performer Wynonna will perform covers of John Prine, Fats Domino, and others on her upcoming EP, Recollections. Due out October 30th via Anti- Records, the project’s first release is a down-and-dirty version of Slim Harpo’s “King Bee.” Largely recorded at Wynonna’s farm in Tennessee during quarantine, the EP …

Aluna (of AlunaGeorge) has released the video for “Envious,” the fourth single from her upcoming debut solo album Renaissance. Directed by Hamadou Frederic Balde, the video shows Aluna and a group of dancers taking over a desert brush setting at sunset, with animated effects sprinkled throughout. “I think people really …

Carly Rae Jepsen has released “Me and the Boys in the Band,” a tribute to her touring band, with an accompanying music video featuring CRJ and her road crew performing and celebrating in their homes. “On the road. That was the life. I miss travel and performing and my bandmates …