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Songwriter Desmond Child gave a New York City audience a tour of his many hits for Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Katy Perry on Saturday night for a performance that was part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. He interspersed the set list — which he sang along with help from …

Alt-country pioneers Son Volt offer insightful commentary on income inequality in “The 99.” The newly unveiled single appears on the band’s upcoming album Union, which will be released on March 29th. Calling back the amplified sound of Son Volt’s early efforts, including 1995’s landmark album Trace, the new track is …

Long before he was the man who wrote “Despacito” — one of the world’s most ubiquitous and all-time greatest hits — he was Luis Fonsi, the Spanish-language heartthrob with millennial pop charisma. He toured with Britney, recorded with Christina and, with every album, he steadily ascended the mainstream Billboard charts …

Like fellow punk-minded performers Brian Fallon, Jesse Malin and Butch Walker, songwriter Dave Hause has become expert at melding introspective, often edgy, Americana lyricism with the most irresistible of pop-rock hooks. The Philadelphia native, and onetime leader of punk outfit the Loved Ones, further hones his craft on the new …

The past half-decade of country music has often felt like one extended response to Florida Georgia Line’s 2012 hit, “Cruise,” which ushered in the wave of escapist fantasies set to syncopated drum loops that became known as “bro country.” Lately, though, the party’s more or less ended, as country has …

MC Bin Laden joins Mace and Ckrono on a blistering, emphatic new single titled “Vroom Vrau.” Like many tracks in the speedy Brazilian genre known as baile funk, this one is skeletal and kinetic. The melody is minimal, little more than a shivering organ sound. Forward momentum is everything, and …

At the beginning of 2019, 21 Savage was the most popular artist in the country: I Am > I Was, his most recent album, spent two weeks on top of the Billboard 200. Less than a month later, the rapper, whose real name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, is in danger …

Alice in Chains vocalist-guitarist Jerry Cantrell reflects on how his band reunited in a new interview with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for the latter’s Apple Music/Beats 1 radio show It’s Electric. The episode will air on February 10th at 3 p.m. PT. In an exclusive clip from the show, Cantrell …

Foo Fighters played a sold-out pre-Super Bowl concert Saturday night in Atlanta, a gig that was live-streamed over Twitter. The Atlanta Station show featured a number of special guests, including Zac Brown and Tom Morello, who joined the Foo Fighters at the two-hour mark of the video below to perform …

The Avett Brothers have released their first taste of new music in 2019, the wintry heartbreak ballad “Neapolitan Sky.” This marks the third time in the past several months that the Avetts have debuted fresh music, with “Roses and Sacrifice” dropping last October and the spritely “Trouble Letting Go” following …