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Tom Morello is pleased about one aspect of life in 2020, at least: More people than ever in the United States are raging against the machine. “There’s a lot of non-Black people fighting back, too,” he says, in the latest edition of our Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition video series. …

Neil Young‘s most recent Fireside Session featured a new rendition of his 2006 song “Lookin’ for a Leader” that lambasted President Trump and urged people to vote against him in the 2020 election. He’s now calling the song “Looking for a Leader 2020” and he’s released it onto streaming services; …

“Rain on Me” collaborators Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga lead the nominees at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, with both singers up for nine Moonmen at the August 30th event. The duo’s “Rain on Me” earned seven nominations on its own, including Video of the Year, Song of the …

In mid-June, the Americana Music Association Foundation announced its plan for Thriving Roots: A Virtual Community Music Conference, with guest speakers including Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, and T Bone Burnett. Set for September 16th through 18th, in place of the annual AmericanaFest in Nashville, the event’s initial programming lineup features …

Miss Mercy, the Frank Zappa muse and style icon who co-founded GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), has died at age 71, according to a social media message that fellow GTO Pamela Des Barres posted Tuesday. No cause of death was given. “My beloved sister for most of my life, Miss Mercy …

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani sing of domestic contentment in the upbeat new single “Happy Anywhere,” released on Friday. The collaborative tune is the follow-up single to the celebrity couple’s Number One country duet “Nobody But You.” Clocking in at a tight two minutes and 50 seconds, “Happy Anywhere” was …

Against a backdrop of shuddering electronic orchestral strings, big-riffing metal guitar and echoey drums, vocalist ARO — whose name is pronounced “arrow” — sings about how a possibly imagined relationship weighs heavy on her soul on her new single, “Shared Something With the Night.” The track (ARO’s first new music …

Yo La Tengo have corralled their recent string of new tracks for an instrumental album titled We Have Amnesia Sometimes, which the long-running New Jersey band created during a week of socially distanced recording sessions this past spring. The album’s five improvisational tracks are available to stream now at Yo …

The Waterboys are out with a high-energy, jazzy new song “The Soul Singer,” the opening track to their upcoming 14th studio album, Good Luck, Seeker (out August 21st via Cooking Vinyl). The song dropped Wednesday via a psychedelic video featuring sneering lead singer Mike Scott, his omnipresent cowboy hat and …

John Doe ventured out to the hill country outside of Austin, Texas to perform stripped-down versions of three X tracks for the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series. The musician filmed the set on the scenic patio of a house belonging to his friend Kevin Smith, who …