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The countdown clock on Woodstock 50’s website continues to subtract days, minutes, and hours until August 16th, when the festival would ostensibly kick off. In recent weeks, its harried organizers have been denied permits four times in Vernon, New York, where they attempted to move the beleaguered fest from its …

Brooklyn indie rock outfit DIIV unveiled a rumbling new song, “Skin Game,” the first offering from their upcoming album Deceiver. “Skin Game” finds DIIV putting a heavier spin on the familiar shoegaze-y whirl of their earlier recordings, as meandering guitar lines shimmer then expand into a deafening crunch. In a …

UPDATE: Taylor Swift is set to perform at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, marking her first live performance on the ceremony since playing “Bad Blood” in 2015. Other performers include Bad Bunny, Camila Cabello, J Balvin, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Rosalía and Shawn Mendes. ** Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, …

Sam Smith is heartbroken in his new single “How Do You Sleep?” The track, created with songwriters/producers Max Martin, Savan Kotecha and ILYA, is a lovelorn pop ballad about trying to move on with an accompanying music video that sees Smith embracing his dancing abilities. Directed by Grant Singer and …

The Pixies soundtrack a psychedelic horror show in the video for their new song “On Graveyard Hill,” set to appear on the band’s upcoming album, Beneath the Eyrie, out September 13th. Directed by Kii Arens and Bobbi Rich, the clip is centered around a young woman who’s convinced by a …

Brittany Howard writes the songs that make Terry Crews and a whole town sing in the video for her new song, “Stay High,” off her upcoming solo debut, Jaime, out September 20th via ATO Records. Kim Gehrig directed the video for “Stay High,” which stars Crews as a factory worker …

In the 1950s, an iconoclastic quantum scientist and mathematician named Hugh Everett developed the many-worlds theory, a controversial idea that would lay the groundwork for a canon of alternate universe sci-fi detailing parallel dimensions. Everett’s work focused on the splits in the universe caused by measuring quantum objects, but became …

Megan Thee Stallion turned up the heat during her performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday. Bathed in red light with a backdrop that included fire imagery and a smoke-filled stage, the rapper and her dancers repped her Houston hometown, sporting the city’s name on their shirts for her first …

Stevie Wonder revealed during his London concert Saturday that he would undergo kidney surgery in September. “So what’s gonna happen is this, I’m going to have surgery, I’m going to have a kidney transplant in September of this year. I’m all good, I’m all good, I’m all good. I have …

Nas will collect unreleased tracks from his last four albums on his long-awaited new compilation, The Lost Tapes 2, out July 19th via Mass Appeal and Def Jam. The 16-track set will feature songs made during the sessions for 2006’s Hip-Hop is Dead, 2008’s Untitled, 2012’s Life Is Good and …