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If you want to truly understand how important Bob Marley is to Jamaica, you have to go there. From the moment you arrive on the island, the reggae superstar’s influence — as the country’s greatest musician, key spiritual icon and righteous revolutionary leader — is unmistakable. Throughout the country, his …

“Gospel goes deeper than entertainment,” Pops Staples said in 1968, shortly after his group, the Staple Singers, signed with Stax Records. “It is the word of god. But you can’t push that down anybody’s throat. All we can do is get as many people to hear us as we can.” …

Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair’s 1989 collaboration It’s Spooky will be reissued for its 30th anniversary, out April 10th via Joyful Noise Recordings. The track “Ashes on the Ground” is out now. Fair, vocalist and guitarist of the punk band Half Japanese, first began corresponding with Johnston in the late …

You could never accuse Man Man of being an upbeat band: cannibals, wolfmen, and plenty of heartbreak litter the Philly-L.A. band’s catalog, going all the way back to their 2004 debut, The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face. Man Man’s upcoming LP, Dream Hunting in the Valley of …

The National, Kurt Vile, Damien Rice and more have contributed cover tracks to Songs For Australia, a compilation album put together by Julia Stone to benefit brush fire relief efforts. Stone, an Australian singer-songwriter best known as one half of brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone, brought together local and …

Billie Eilish has released “No Time to Die,” the latest James Bond theme song that she co-wrote (with her brother and collaborator Finneas) and recorded for the upcoming 007 film of the same name. The contemplative piano-driven track features Eilish’s signature haunting whisper before hitting a string-drenched crescendo toward the …

Less than a month before releasing her band’s debut album, Honeymoon, Beach Bunny‘s Lili Trifilio tweeted something unexpected. “Love honeymoon but I cannot relate to her,” she wrote, confessing to the all-too common dissonance artists feel from the lag between recording and releasing an album. “I’m not saying I won’t …

In the last few years, Deftones have stopped touring the U.S. in favor of throwing their own festivals: Dia de los Deftones, held at San Diego’s Petco Park, has included Future, CHVRCHES, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and more. But Tuesday, the band announced their first full U.S. summer tour since …

Backstreet Boys will head out on a 45-date North American tour this summer. The tour, produced by Live Nation, will kick off July 10th in New York at the Jones Beach Theater and include stops across the U.S. and Canada. This set of dates follows the first North American leg …

Meghan Trainor stopped by The Tonight Show to perform her recent single “Nice to Meet Ya.” The singer went above and beyond with the performance, bringing a group of backup dancers and unveiling the track on a stylistic office-themed set. The late-night version of the song mirrors the single’s video, …