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The newest release from Bruce Springsteen‘s monthly concert download series is a gig he played with the E Street Band in Gothenburg, Sweden, on July 28th, 2012. It was a special, rain-soaked show that featured tour premieres of “Lost in the Flood,” “Frankie,” “Where the Bands Are” and “Jungleland.” The …

Thundercat unveiled an immersive song, “Innerstellar Love,” set to appear on his new album, ItIs What It Is, out tomorrow, April 3rd, via Brainfeeder. The track features contributions from frequent collaborators Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington and Thundercat’s brother, percussionist Ronald Bruner, Jr. It opens with a cosmic swirl and short, …

Demi Lovato appeared virtually on The Tonight Show to perform her single “I Love Me.” The singer, who has been hunkering down at her mom’s house, also spoke with Jimmy Fallon about mental health and how she’s been dealing with the stress of quarantine. In the low-key performance, Lovato really …

Everyone has been waiting for Weird Al Yankovic to give his musical take on the coronavirus and the singer recently appeared on The Tonight Show to perform “One More Minute” as an anthem about social distancing. Appearing via video chat with host Jimmy Fallon, Yankovic revisited his 1985 song, which …

Roger Waters has postponed the North American leg of his upcoming This Is Not a Drill Tour due to the coronavirus pandemic. The trek, which was scheduled to embark July 8th and timed to conclude a month before Election Day, will instead launch in 2021. “The bad news is: I’ve …

Soccer Mommy was originally scheduled to perform a Tiny Desk concert for NPR this month with video of the performance to be released on March 30th. But with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, social distancing is a must, and NPR has decided to take a break from filming Tiny Desk shows …

Bluegrass musician Eric Weissberg, whose cover of the Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith instrumental “Dueling Banjos” became an unlikely pop hit when it appeared on the soundtrack to the 1972 film Deliverance, died Sunday at the age of 80 after a five-year struggle with dementia. His son, Will Weissberg, confirmed the …

Hours after the Killers unveiled the video for their new single “Caution,” the band’s Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. performed the song in a bathroom as part of Jimmy Kimmel’s daily Quarantine Minilogue Friday. Prior to the performance from the “sterile location,” Kimmel, a fellow Las Vegas native, asked …

The Irish have put up with a lot of bullshit over the years. There’s England. The Troubles. The kittening of the Celtic Tiger. Enya. It’s not been an easy history. And black people, those living in mostly white countries anyway, they’ve put up with a whole bunch of bullshit, too. …

The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now examines the unprecedented, boundary-smashing success of South Korean superstars BTS, digging into their new album, Map of the Soul: 7, their history, and their under-examined sociopolitical messages. From there, the episode delves into the long, colorful history of boy bands, all the …