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Mavis Staples has announced details of We Get By, her new studio album produced by Ben Harper. Following her acclaimed 2017 collectionIf All I Was Was Black,the album marks the latest in a flurry of creativity from Staples, who will turn 80 this summer. We Get By is an album …

Last year, Logic and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt asked people from around the world to participate in a song through the collaborative community HITRECORD. The resulting track is “Do What You Love,” which features 21 people with different backgrounds and skill sets from around the world. At SXSW on Friday, Logic …

Jenny Lewis has shared her new song “Wasted Youth,” the third single from the singer’s upcoming On the Line. Like the LP’s previous singles, Lewis taps into the classic Seventies singer-songwriter sound on “Wasted Youth,” a catchy rumination that echoes her own difficult childhood. “Why are you lying?/The bourbon’s gone/Mercury …

Perturbed Schoolboy Q is the best Schoolboy Q, and “Numb Numb Juice” is the TDE rapper at his most ornery. In under two minutes, Schoolboy lists a variety of things that are “bitch shit” over the Nez & Rio, DJ Fu and Hykeem Carter beat. Below is a condensed list …

Over the past few decades, everyone from AC/DC and Metallica to Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots, Elvis Costello and Blondie have played live on The Howard Stern Show. Those performances have largely sat in the vault since they originally aired, but he’s breaking them all out with …

Mac DeMarco unveiled “Nobody,” a desolate track set to appear on his next album, Here Comes the Cowboy. It’s out May 10th via his own Mac’s Record Label. “Nobody” is stripped down and ambling: Built around prickly guitars and a steady clop of drums and bass. DeMarco sings, “There’s no …

Reggae innovator Lee “Scratch “Perry will release a new album, Rainford, on May 10th via On-U Sound Records. The songwriter-producer previewed the nine-track set with the woozy new track “African Starship,” which finds Perry speak-singing over a slowed-down dub groove laced with wah-wah licks, fluttering flute and moaning, muted trumpet. …

Kendrick Lamar and SZA will not be performing their Oscar-nominated song “All the Stars” from Black Pantherduring the Academy Awards broadcast this weekend, a source confirmed to Rolling Stone.AsVarietynotes, the reason they will not perform is due to logistics and timing. In addition to the pair’s nominated song, Black Pantherhas …

As K-pop sweeps the global music scene, young musicians are increasingly vying to rise to the top of the genre — and too many of them look exactly the same, according to South Korea’s government. Over the weekend, officials gave local TV producers and broadcasters new guidelines that suggested restricting …

Pink seeks comfort in another during trying times on her potent new song, “Walk Me Home.” Co-written with Fun.’s Nate Ruess and songwriter Scott Harris (the Chainsmokers, Shawn Mendes), “Walk Me Home” finds Pink belting over heavy drums and the steady twang of an acoustic guitar. “Walk me home in …