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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return to their trusty time-traveling phone booth and square with their old foe and bandmate, Death, in the first photos from the third installment of the Bill and Ted saga, Bill and Ted Face the Music, out August 21st, 2020. Face the Music will be …

When David Bowie began writing songs for Hunky Dory, in 1970, he had little to show for the six years he spent trying to make it as a singer. His first three albums had tanked, and he didn’t have a record deal. Then, in January 1971, Bowie arrived in the …

Foo Fighters, Post Malone, Chance the Rapper and a reunion of the hip-hop duo Clipse highlight Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water Festival, rolling into the producer’s native Virginia Beach, Virginia, on April 24th through 26th, 2020 Tyler the Creator, Beck (who worked with Williams on his new LP Hyperspace), …

Young artists who blow up thanks to a sudden surge in viral interest often hit a wall when trying to repeat a breakout single. This was not a problem for Juice WRLD last year. After the heartbroken “All Girls Are the Same” announced him as a commercial force, Juice WRLD …

Run the Jewels’ El-P will bring his solo records to streaming services for the first time. The rapper’s 2007 LP I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead — originally released via his Def Jux label and long unavailable on streaming services — kicks off the digital reissue campaign Friday. Throughout 2020, El-P …

Trippie Redd bested Post Malone to claim the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of November 22nd through 28th. The rapper jumped from Number 13 to Number One, notching 146.4 million song streams as his new mixtape, A Love Letter to You 4, …

On November 28th, 1925, 94 years ago this week, the WSM Barn Dance was born. Fashioned after the already popular National Barn Dance, which premiered in April 1924 on Chicago radio station WLS, the show would later be christened the Grand Ole Opry, after host George D. Hay noted that …

Somewhere inside every album Beck has made since Mellow Gold — his 1994 surprise attack of slippery irony and hip-hop bravado — is the solo folk-blues singer caught on that year’s One Foot in the Grave, writing about despair with a surrealist edge while turned toward hope. That is the …

Billie Eilish‘s “Everything I Wanted” leapt to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 songs chart after debuting at Number 51 on the previous ranking. The single earned more than 20 million streams and more than 16,000 downloads last week. Behind Eilish, the newcomer Arizona Zervas held steady …

Evanescence has released their rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” featured in the launch trailer for the new Xbox Game Studios video game, Gear 5, from the Gears of War series. The release marks Evanescence’s first new rock recording in eight years. “This cover was so fun to make. We love …