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Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Travis Scott will headline the inaugural Day N Vegas, a rap-heavy music festival set for November 1st through the 3rd in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tyler, the Creator; Migos, 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, Miguel, 6LACK, Kali Uchis, Juice WRLD, Brockhampton, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, …

Ahead of the Veronica Mars revival, the series’ longtime theme song is getting a re-vamp. For the eight-episode reboot on Hulu, the show’s theme song, “We Used To Be Friends” by the Dandy Warhols, will be performed by the Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde. In a teaser for Hynde’s take of the …

Rock singer-songwriter Jesse Jo Stark unveiled her new song “Lady Bird” on Friday, with an up close and personal video – literally. The clip is a single-take close-up of Stark’s eyes, bedazzled with glittery green eyeshadow, as she sings “Lady Bird” in voiceover. “I’d love to kill you but you …

Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge told employees to be transparent with any artist asking about whether their recordings were destroyed in a 2008 fire at Universal Studios, the Los Angeles Times reports. In an internal memo circulated to employees (and obtained by the LA Times), Grainge said, “Let me …

Guns N’ Roses have extended the latest U.S. leg of their long-running reunion tour, adding eight new dates. The fall run of their “Not in This Lifetime” trek now launches September 25th in Charlotte, North Carolina and wraps with back-to-back shows in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 1st and 2nd. …

Dhani Harrison recorded a live version of his song “Never Know.” The opening track to his 2017 solo debut In Parallel, the ethereal song is part of Harrison’s new film. Titled In Paralive, it will be released on June 14th. “I always believe in performing every album I make live …

Franz Ferdinand surprised an audience in Porto, Portugal with a new song, “Black Tuesday.” The terse, swaggering track, captured and posted to YouTube by a fan, features the band’s edgy rock style. In the clip, shot during the North Music Festival, the musicians go all in on the performance, bringing …

Blondie‘s Debbie Harry will release her previously announced memoir, Face It, on October 1st via Harper Collins. The book, which blends first-person essays with interviews conducted by journalist Sylvie Simmons, documents her band’s ascent to New Wave fame. In a statement about the autobiography, which includes previously unseen photos and …

Adam Levine is not returning as a coach for the next season of NBC’s The Voice. The Maroon 5 singer revealed the news on Friday, bidding farewell with a lengthy, heartfelt Instagram post. “We had no idea what we were doing or where it was going,” he wrote. “It went …

The Verve‘s 1997 hit “Bitter Sweet Symphony” is one of the finest songs of the Britpop era, a classically Nineties expression of world-weary cool with just the right amount of English self-regard. It’s a song that only Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft could have written — except that he didn’t, according …