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Bon Scott, the late AC/DC singer who fronted the band from 1974 to 1980, vents about financial struggles, hard drinking and the band’s grueling tour schedule in a handwritten August 1978 letter headed to auction. The note, addressed to Valerie Dalli, his girlfriend at the time, is set to start …

Hip-hop duo 88Glam and fellow Toronto native Nav unveiled a gloomy new video for their recent collaboration, “It’s a Flex.” 88Glam’s 88 Camino said the Dan Le-Moyne-directed clip is centered around “fashion, decadence and dissipation.” In the video, Camino, Derek Wise and Nav perform the gauzy, boast-filled cut in a …

Kenny Beats leans back and forth in a swivel chair, his movements matching the rhythm of his words, his face darting in and out of the conference room shadows. He’s describing L.A. rapper03 Greedo’s last days of freedom before he turned himself in to serve 20 years in prison for …

Kanye West became hip-hop establishment because he was never willing to conform to other artists’ styles. But in the last few months, the 41-year-old visionary reversed course, skewing his own sound by ingratiating himself to the SoundCloud generation. In some cases, it’s been commercially successful (albeit creatively bankrupt) like“I Love …

“I ain’t the devil, just the devil you know,” howls Jared Deck on the rollicking “Great American Breakdown,” the lead single from his newly announced sophomore album,Bully Pulpit. The Oklahoma-based troubadour evokes the hard-driving blues blend of late-Sixties Rolling Stones and soulful Southern gospel while maintaining his blue-collar earnestness on …

When it first appeared on Radiohead‘s 2011 album The King of Limbs, “Bloom” was an expansive wash of interlocking guitar parts, polysyllabic percussion and more than one flugelhorn. In concert, it’s remained one of the band’s most complex live songs, with up to three drummers working at a time on …

Keith Urban is gearing up for a busy summer festival season. The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year has five fests already on his schedule and just added another: Urban will headline Michigan’s Faster Horses Festival with Toby Keith and Zac Brown Band. Set for July 19th through 21st in …

The same week Chicago rapper CupkKake was hospitalized following a suicidal tweet, she released a new song, “Squidward Nose.” It’s her first track since releasing the album Eden last fall. On “Squidward Nose,” CupcakKe raps about a man whose “dick’s smaller than [her] toes.” Instead, she chooses the Spongebob Squarepants character Squidward’s nose to ride instead. …

Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and experimental lute player Jozef Van Wissem will release their fourth collaborative LP, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil, on February 8th via Sacred Bones Records. The duo teased the record with the shadowy track “Concerning the White Horse,” which unfurls metallic drones and throbbing toms …

Reclusive “Ode to Billie Joe” and “Fancy” songwriter Bobbie Gentry continues to inspire a new generation of artists including indie rockers Mercury Rev, who have debuted their uniquely psychedelic jazz rendition of the Mississippi legend’s swampy “Okolona River Bottom Band,” with vocal assistance from Norah Jones. “Okolona” is the opening …