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DJ Shadow has tapped De La Soul for a boisterous new track, “Rocket Fuel,” which marks the DJ/producer’s first new music since 2017. “Rocket Fuel” boasts a quintessential DJ Shadow beat, with a surge of hard-hitting drums anchoring layers of vocal loops, horn samples and Shadow’s dizzying scratching. De La …

Johnny Clegg — the British-born, South African musician who stood against apartheid in his adopted home and whose work crossed racial divides — died on Tuesday at his home in Johannesburg, Associated Press reports. He was 66. The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, was born in …

Black Sabbath wrote the book on heavy, and their first decade’s worth of albums represent the Old Testament in the book of metal. From the clanging opening chords of “Black Sabbath” and lumbering siren’s call of “War Pigs” to the demon’s cry of “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” and proto-thrash riffs of …

Chance the Rapper‘s debut album, The Big Day, is set to arrive July 26th. The rapper went on The Tonight Show to reveal the news to host Jimmy Fallon, who agreed to pre-order the album in return for Chance spilling the title, release date and cover art. The album had …

Avril Lavigne conjures a brooding, gothic vibe in her new “I Fell in Love With the Devil” video. The clip opens with the singer driving a hearse transporting her own coffin. Later, she appears in the woods wearing a black cape, clutching a silver cross and playing a piano adorned …

Celebratory cover album Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit‘s “The Midnight Organ Fight” is out July 12th and Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has shared his version of “Keep Yourself Warm” ahead of the release. The emotional, ambient song get even more evocative in Gibbard’s voice, revealing …

Oh Sees have released a psychedelic new song, “Poisoned Stones.” Throughout the track, mastermind John Dwyer’s voice is buried under staccato electric guitars, robotic fuzz licks and a rolling, Krautrock-styled drum groove. The San Francisco band paired the single with an animated clip (courtesy of Eaten Alive Illustrations) that resembles …

When U2 played an afternoon show at Dublin’s Dandelion Market on August 11th, 1979, they were just four teenagers in a struggling band. They had never played outside their native Ireland or released so much as an EP to the public. But after three years of work, they had enough …

Logic and Eminem recruit a pair of noteworthy stunt doubles in the video for “Homicide,” the rappers’ collaboration from Logic’s recent album Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. The video’s lengthy opener underlines the premise: An unreachable Eminem won’t be available for the “Homicide” video, so Logic’s manager recruits a pair …

Jack Antonoff, singer Sam Dew and producer Sounwave have teamed up for a new trio called Red Hearse. On Wednesday, the group unveiled two new tracks, “Red Hearse” and “Honey,” which preview their forthcoming eponymous album due this summer via RCA Records. The group has previous ties. Antonoff, the Bleachers …