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Ariana Grande delivered the debut TV performance of her new single “Imagine” with assistance from the Roots on Tuesday’s The Tonight Show. Draped in a red Christmas sweater, Grande gave her sultry ballad a brassy reworking as the Roots helped transform the single into a bluesy rave-up. Grande also wowed …

Gerard Way has dropped a Christmas-ready power pop single “Dasher.” This is the rock star’s third new solo single in two months. “Dasher” features Lydia Night of the Regrettes. On the song, Way tells the story of a girl who falls in love with a reindeer. The lyrics are full …

Dave Grohl debuted his one-man instrumental project “Play” live with an all-star band that included members of Queens of the Stone Age and Jane’s Addiction and producer Greg Kurstin. The Foo Fighters frontman first revealed the prog-rock epic in a documentary back in August which showed him making a 23-minute …

Guttersnipe are an ecstatic, disgusting, blown-out, body-music-and-rainbow-noise yowl duo from Leeds, England currently making the rounds on U.K. year end lists like The Wire and The Quietus. If you like your rock music frenzied, caustic and devoid of anything resembling a melody, this might be worth a blast. Drummer Tipula …

DJ Earworm dropped his “United State of Pop 2018 (Turnin’ It Up),” the mash-up specialist’s annual seamless showcase of the year’s biggest singles. And by this metric, the year belonged to Drake, who had a slew of songs in the mix. Drake’s “God’s Plan,” “Nice for What” and “In My Feelings” …

Annie Lennox sings about the tragedies of war in her first new song in eight years, “Requiem for a Private War.” In the video for the song, she sings elegiacally, “All the world is falling down,” as footage from the new movie, A Private War, plays. It’s a slow-building, passionate …

By the summer of 1987, Richard “Richie Ramone” Reinhardt had had enough of the Ramones. The New York punk group hired him as their drummer in 1983 when Marky Ramone’s drinking problem became a massive liability, but after a grueling four years of touring, recording and even singing lead on …

Boz Scaggs takes nothing for granted, especially his voice. Each day before soundcheck on his just-wrapped tour, he put his vocal cords through their paces. For about six or seven minutes, he formed long “oohs” and “aahs,” pushing his throat to a strenuous point before easing it back down. “It’s …

Kurt Cobain offered his thoughts on hip-hop and claimed white people shouldn’t rap in a recently unearthed interview conducted September 20th, 1991, four days before Nirvana released Nevermind. The interview was posted by Roberto LoRusso, who conducted the interview when he was 21 and working as a DJ for his …

It took Snow Patrol seven years to release their new album Wildness, but they haven’t had any trouble regaining momentum after the long hiatus. The band spent the summer and fall playing to stadiums opening up for Snow Patrol superfan Ed Sheeran, and just announced an extensive spring U.S. tour, …