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Playboi Carti will release his long-awaited second album, Whole Lotta Red, on Christmas Day, December 25th. The rapper announced the news on social media Monday night, December 21st, sharing the release date, album cover, and a preorder link. The album announcement was accompanied by a sizable merch drop. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJFngjxAfDG/ Playboi …

Ahead of Friday’s release of McCartney III, Paul McCartney virtually stopped by The Tonight Show to talk about the creation of his new album. “I just was in lockdown and I had some time on my hands, so I started finishing up songs and stuff, thinking this was just for …

Bon Jovi rode their 1987 single “Wanted Dead or Alive” — with its power-ballad metaphor about a wandering outlaw, his steel horse, and a loaded six-string — into Eighties jukebox history. And it cemented singer Jon Bon Jovi as a rock-star cowboy in the process. He returned to the Wild …

Anita White, the Seattle blues singer who performs under the name Lady A, has released a new song about her legal battle with a Nashville country-music trio over use of the name. “My Name Is All I Got” is a rhythmic, stomp-and-clap blues song that finds White detailing the hardships …

So, How Was Your 2020?is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Kelsea Ballerini had the unfortunate timing of releasing her third album Kelsea one week into quarantine, …

When Jack Harlow was 16, he looked and sounded exactly like Andy Samberg. On “S.A.V.,” a track from his maiden high school mixtape Finally Handsome, his raps were self-deprecating and aspirational in the same breath: “Spend my whole spring break scrolling down Instagram/ Double-tapping pictures of these girls in their …

Black Pumas brought their psychedelic soul to NPR’s “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” series, playing four tracks from the Grammy-nominated deluxe edition of their self-titled debut LP. Singer-guitarist Eric Burton and guitarist-producer Adrian Quesada offered a maximalist take on the tracks, recruiting a keyboardist, bassist, drummer and pair of backing vocalists …

Robert Earl Keen‘s annual Christmas shows are a tradition for the Texas singer-songwriter, and he’s determined to keep them going even in this uncertain year — albeit in a safety-first, socially distanced way. On December 10th, Keen will kick off his Merry Christmas From the Fam-O-Lee: Secret Santa Christmas Tour, …

The Strokes aim for a moral victory in an impossible game of baseball against superior robot opponents in the new video for “The Adults Are Talking.” The clip finds the band reuniting with director Roman Coppola, who helmed several classic videos for the Strokes’ first album, Is This It, including …

Ann Wilson has revealed in a new interview that a Heart biopic, written and directed by Carrie Brownstein, is in the works. “I can’t tell you all about it, because it’s still being written right now… I saw the first draft of [Brownstein’s] script, it’s really cool,” Ann Wilson told …