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Once a year, downtown Chicago shuts down completely as hordes of tank-top-wearing teens stream into Grant Park for Lollapalooza. This year’s four-day festival had plenty to entertain those crowds, from the biggest names in R&B-shaded pop in The Weeknd and Bruno Mars, to Travis Scott raging on his own album …

Cher, Reba McEntire, composer Philip Glass and jazz great Wayne Shorter will receive the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors, with this year’s ceremony also bestowing a special award to the musical Hamilton. “The Cabinet is headed to DC. Honored honored honored,” Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted of the award, the first time in …

Pussy Riotunveiled two new videos protesting law enforcement and unjust imprisonment for their songs “КОШМАРЫ/ Nightmares” and “Pong!” The group’s intense “КОШМАРЫ/ Nightmares” is a partial cover of Dina Vierny’s “Nightmares.” The animated video details harsh prison conditions. It begins with a pulsating strobe light mirroring the urgent call the …

Billy Joel celebrated a record-breaking milestone on Wednesday night – his 100th performance at Madison Square Garden – with a surprise guest. The New Yorker looked to New Jersey and enlistedBruce Springsteento celebrate the landmark moment. The pair of icons performed a couple of songs together. Springsteen sat atop Joel’s …

After a six-year gap between records, Cat Power will return with Wanderer this fall. The record, which artist Chan Marshall (who goes by the name Cat Power) produced entirely by herself, will come out on October 5th. A one-minute teaser for the album features Marhsall singing the lilting title track, …

EDITORS’ PICK: Deafheaven, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love “Deafheaven fancy themselves as a modern-day Bad Brains, but instead of blending hardcore punk and reggae, they combine vicious black metal with expansive space rock,” writes Kory Grow. “Now they’ve returned to their original muse and are splitting the difference between the battering-ram …

Radiohead opened the North American leg of the 2018 tour Friday in Chicago, where the band dug out one big surprise for the United Center audience: The first performance of Pablo Honey closer “Blow Out” in nearly a decade. After being a staple of Radiohead’s mid-Nineties setlists, “Blow Out” disappeared …

Anne-Marie’s “2002” is the biggest solo release of her career, a multi-week Top Five single in the U.K. built around a simple, effective gimmick: cribbing lyrics from songs that were hits between 1998 and 2003. “Oops, I got 99 problems singing bye, bye, bye,” Anne-Marie sings on the track, released …

Up until a few months ago, Mark Foster was facing the serious possibility of going down in history as a one-hit wonder. His groupFoster the Peoplestill had an intensely loyal following and enough juice to land an opening slot on Paramore’s summer arena tour, but after exploding onto the scene …

What makes a summer jam? Is it the sunniest chorus, the hottest beat, the most weeks on the charts? Do the lyrics have to be about beaches and barbecues, or is it a question of vibe? What if it’s a song on your summer playlist and no one else’s? We …