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The live music industry has been decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with distancing guidelines and local ordinances keeping nearly all event spaces out of operation since March. In Nashville, independently owned venues got a much-needed lift on Thursday, as Metro Council approved a resolution to provide $2 million from CARES …

Mick Jagger got a call from his label recently with some news: While working on a reissue of the Rolling Stones’ 1973 album Goats Head Soup, the crew found some unreleased tracks. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh, no,’” Jagger says. “Unreleased tracks, to me that always means a lot of work. …

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Countryselects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. Regan Stewart, “Drop Dead Gorgeous” Regan Stewart …

The long-awaited Bill & Ted Face the Music hits video-on-demand on Friday, and with it a soundtrack featuring new music by Weezer, Lamb of God, Fidlar and Mastodon, whose “Rufus Lives” premiered Friday. The track takes its name from the late George Carlin’s character Rufus, Bill and Ted’s time-traveling guide …

Pearl Jam have partnered with the online fundraising platform Omaze in an effort to protect voting rights and encourage Americans to cast their ballots in the 2020 election. Everyone that donates through Omaze.com/PearlJam will be entered into a sweepstakes where the winner (and a friend) will be flown to Seattle …

It was 50 years ago today that Elton John played the first American concert of his career at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. He was largely unknown in the States at that point even though he’d already released two records, but his self-titled LP was generating a lot of industry …

Rhiannon Giddens has released a new solo recording, the snarling blues number “Don’t Call Me Names.” Over hypnotic, murky bass, Dobro, and violin tones, Giddens stands her ground against a cruel lover. “You wouldn’t treat a dog that way, don’t call me names,” she sings. Mid-song, it reaches a feverish …

“I heard you been creepin’ round/’Bout the time that sun goes down,” sings TJ Osborne in Brothers Osborne’s thumping new song “Skeletons.” The country duo’s third studio album, also titled Skeletons, will be released October 9th. Opening with trippy, hypnotic keyboard pulses and throbbing bass, “Skeletons” surges just shy of …

UPDATE (11/5): The 2021 All the Best festival — which serves as a tribute to the late John Prine — has been postponed with no new date given. The event was expected to feature Prine’s sons, Jack and Tommy. “Sixthman and Oh Boy Records feel it is only appropriate to …

“When Trevor Noah andThe Daily Show ask you to Cardi B, you do it,” Margo Price wrote on Twitter last night. That would explain her folksy cover of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s highly explicit rap song “WAP,” which she performed Thursday night for the program. (“WAP” begins at …