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Coldplay literally took their concert into the crowd for a rendition of their new song “Cry, Cry, Cry” on The Ellen DeGeneres show Wednesday. The performance found the band sitting in the Ellen audience, playing a stripped-down version of the uplifting soul tune. Soon, however, a quartet of background singers …

Roddy Ricch‘s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart this week. Ricch’s major-label debut arrived at Number One when it came out last month. Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial sold less than 1,000 copies, but it racked up …

Record label executives in the United States could be forgiven for treating themselves this month. For a while now, fears have existed that audio streaming growth would start to slow in the U.S. If this tipping point happens — when this tipping point happens — it will be a concrete …

Throughout a series of health challenges in the last years of his life, Waylon Jennings retained the same outlaw spirit that he first brought to Nashville in the early Sixties, when RCA producer Chet Atkins signed him to the label. Although Atkins wanted Jennings to be himself, the veteran producer-guitarist …

In 1998, Elvis Presley was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The long-awaited honor came 12 years after Presley was one of the first members enshrined in the newly formed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. His connection to country music was evident from the beginning …

Author Nancy French remembered how David Lee Roth nearly inadvertently ruined her fledgling marriage in a new piece for The Washington Post. The piece is centered around French’s marriage to a man named David, whom she met at age 20 and married soon after. At the time, many of her …

Jerry Herman, the Tony Award-winning composer for Broadway hits like Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles, and Mame, died Thursday, The Associated Press reports. He was 88. Herman’s goddaughter, Jane Dorian, confirmed his death and said the cause was pulmonary complication. Herman had been living with his partner, Terry Marler, …

Jack Ingram had already established himself as a booming Texas export when “Wherever You Are” turned him into a nationally celebrated chart-topper in 2005. Nearly 15 years later, he straddles the border between the country mainstream’s outermost orbit — thanks to award-winning songs like Miranda Lambert’s “Tin Man,” which he …

So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. From waking up naked and covered in glitter on Charli XCX’s tour bus …

Mariah Carey has debuted a new music video for “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” The new clip for the 25-year-old holiday classic premiered on a YouTube livestream hosted by Carey on Thursday night, with a live fan Q&A leading up to the video’s midnight premiere. While the original …