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The family of late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray secured a settlement for the rocker’s 2010 death from a drug overdose, the Des Moines Register reports. The Gray family sued pain relief specialist Dr. Daniel Baldi and his former employers, including the hospital company UnityPoint-Des Moines. The case was scheduled to …

Jimi Hendrix‘s previously unreleased cover of Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy” was released viaBBC Radio 6.The late guitarist recorded the famous blues cut at the Record Plant in New York on April 22, 1969.He was accompanied by bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, who soon adopted the name the Band …

Miranda Lambert‘s new Livin’ Like Hippies Tour kicks off a week from today on January 18th, but already the Grammy winner is already making plans for summer. On Thursday, Lambert announced that she’d be joining Little Big Town for the co-headlining Bandwagon Tour this summer. The 13-date tour takes place …

Queen, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond and Emmylou Harris are among the artists who will receive the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. The organization behind the Grammys will also hand out its Special Merit Awards to Louis Jordan, the Metersand Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine. This year’s honorees will …

Last year, Texas-based roots singer Charley Crockett played more than 170 shows. With his holiday break, he hit the road again, this time with his girlfriend to shoot a new music video for his version of “Jamestown Ferry,” released last September on his covers collection Lil G.L.’s Honky Tonk Jubilee. …

Solange has canceled her New Year’s Eve performance that was to take place during the Afropunk Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. The singer revealed she has been treating an autonomic disorder and her doctors have advised her to bow out of the trip and concert. “Wrote, deleted and rewrote this …

Kendrick Lamar explores the highs and lows of romance in the new video for “Love,” a track off the rapper’s Damn. In the artfully composed video, the course of a relationship is shown from the perspective of a dinner table, where Lamar and his girl make love, talk and loudly …

The Decemberists resurrected an unused set of Hamilton lyrics with “Ben Franklin’s Song,” the first installment of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s monthly “Hamildrops” series. The triumphant, expletive-laced folk-rock track chronicles Franklin’s numerous accomplishments as an inventor, writer and diplomat. “Do you know who the fuck I am?” bandleader Colin Meloy sings on …

Dire Straits went through a lot of lineup changes over their relatively brief time as an active band. Nine musicians joined frontman Mark Knopfler during the run, some lasting for little over two years. The only person to make it all the way from the first album in 1977 to …

UPDATE:Kesha postponed her spring tour dates in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Japan after tearing her ACL during a February 9th concert in Dubai. The pop star is undergoing surgery to mend her knee and is expected to be healthy enough to embark on her co-headlining tour with Macklemore this …