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Max B released “Super Bad,” the second single from his upcoming Negro Spiritualsalbum, on Friday. The track previously appeared on the free mixtape Coke Wave 4, a collaboration with the rapper French Montana and the producer Paul Couture. “Super Bad” revolves a smoother-than-smooth sample of Jonathan Butler’s “Song for Elizabeth” …

ZZ Top rolled out the trailer for their upcoming documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas earlier this week. The film — which traces their 50-year saga from their earliest days gigging around Houston through their period as MTV-era superstars and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees …

Ever since his arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Sweden earlier this month, A$AP Rocky, the Harlem rapper currently being held in Stockholm on assault charges, has become a cause célèbre for the music industry. #FreeAsapRocky hashtags have flooded social media, while a Change.org petition has received over 600,000 signatures and …

King Princess will release her debut album, Cheap Queen, this fall on Mark Ronson‘s Zelig Records. She made the announcement with the release of the LP’s latest single, “Prophet.” “Prophet” is a soulful rock slow-burner where the “Pussy Is God” singer thinks about someone she’s infatuated with. “I can only …

Sleater-Kinney get experimental on their new single, the title-track from theirforthcoming ninth studio album, The Center Won’t Hold. The song marks the band’s first release since longtime drummer Janet Weiss announced her departure from the line-up. (Weiss performed on the LP, out August 16th.) “The Center Won’t Hold,” like the …

Devendra Banhart released a breezy, upbeat song called “Abre Las Manos.” The track is the second single off Banhart’s upcoming album Ma, out September 13th via Nonesuch Records. “Abre Las Manos,” which translates to “open your hands” in English, was inspired by the musician’s homeland of Venezuela. The video features …

Ben Harper explores the space between love, dependence and self-reliance on his moving new song, “Uneven Days.” The spare ballad finds Harper singing over heavy piano chords as strings swell up alongside, leading the track to an apex where distant percussion echoes across the negative space. “Love is pain in …

Sunday morning’s announcement that Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group caused the a-pop-calypse to swiftly descend upon us. Braun, an entrepreneur and talent manager best known for representing Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, among others, seemed like an unlikely partner for Borchetta’s Nashville-based independent label. …

Two new collections will delve into the music Elvis Presley produced in Las Vegas and Memphis in 1969, Live 1969 and American Sound 1969, which will be released August 9th and August 23rd, respectively. Live 1969 commemorates the 50th anniversary of Elvis’ residency at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, …

On Wednesday Adam Lambert released the video for “Comin in Hot,” the third single from his forthcoming album Velvet and the second visual installment of a short film in support of the record, after “New Eyes.” The clip follows Lambert as he hits up a steamy retro night club, populated by ball …