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In honor of would have been Prince‘s birthday Sunday — and protests around the country over the police killing of George Floyd — the Prince estate released a new lyric video for “Baltimore.” Prince dropped the song in 2015 in response to the death of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray, who died …

Neil Young is taking a page from the Bob Dylan playbook by creating his own version of the Bootleg Series. He has yet to roll out exact details, but the plan is to take famous concert bootlegs, track down the actual master recordings and release them himself via his website. …

Queen‘s Brian May revealed that he’s feeling “incredibly grateful” after recovering from a “small heart attack” that left him “very near death.” And it’s only part of a complicated medical ordeal for the guitarist, who was recently hospitalized after ripping his gluteus maximus in what he calls a “bizarre gardening …

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, best known for backing Miles Davis on a string of iconic records, including 1959’s Kind of Blue, has died from lung cancer at age 91, NPR reports. Cobb, born in Washington D.C. in 1929, began his touring career with saxophonist Earl Bostic in 1950. This led …

With the Eagles’ summer tour postponed, Joe Walsh will instead serve as host of his Old-Fashioned Rock & Roll Radio Showbeginning Saturday on a southern California public radio station. The hour-long weekly program, airing on 88.5 FM in the Los Angeles area, was conceived by the Eagles guitarist — a …

In 2017, Roger Waters launched a lengthy tour, his first in four years, that came to a total of 156 shows — and, more important, incorporated more of his Pink Floyd work than ever before. Waters will commemorate those historic shows with a new concert film, Roger Waters: Us + …

To mark the 40th anniversary of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis‘ death, Mark Lanegan teamed up with Cold Cave for an icy rendition of “Isolation,” a track off of Joy Division’s final album, 1980’s Closer. Lanegan joined Cold Cave in a room for a live performance, singing side by side …

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Alison Mosshart and more perform from quarantine on the latest installment of Third Man Records‘ Public Access web series. The episode features Moore playing a song titled “Mantra for D.A. Levy,” while Mosshart — vocalist for the Kills and Jack White’s the Dead Weather — opened …

“My first album is about to drop soon,” actor and rapper Shameik Moore tells Rolling Stone in the latest installment of The First Time. “First times are continuing to happen. It’s a wonderful experience.” In an at-home interview, Moore discusses his collaborations with producer duo Ayo n’ Keyz and his …

Remember going out at night? Those were different times. But late-night brooding can be the perfect time to lose yourself in music. And these songs are a perfect soundtrack to get lost in, for those long, moody evenings on your own. As part of Rolling Stone’s new weekly playlist series, …