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Early in January, DJ K.i.D. put out a call for beats on Instagram. K.i.D. works with the rapper DaBaby, who was a fountain of hits in 2019, so the response to the producer’s post was overwhelming. “I sent out that message online, and 5,000 people hit me,” K.i.D. recalls. “My …

Stevie Wonder paid tribute to fellow soul legend Bill Withers with a cover of “Lean on Me” during Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home special, which raised over $127 million for COVID-19 relief. Wonder also played a portion of his own “Love’s In Need of Love Today” during his …

Johnny Marr performed a stripped-down, instrumental take on the Smiths‘ “The Headmaster Ritual,” then offered a virtual guitar lesson as part of Fender’s ongoing Artist Check-In series. The clip opens with Marr offering a quick breakdown of the gear he’s using before launching into the Meat Is Murder opener. Prior …

Courtney Marie Andrews has released “Burlap String,” the second song from the singer’s upcoming album Old Flowers. In the accompanying video, Andrews re-enacts the song’s acute sense of loss, wandering around a dusty trail in southern Arizona as she ruminates on her own heartbreak. The video serves in part as …

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his family hosted another digital event celebrating the release of the new novel Theater for Dreamers, by Polly Samson, Gilmour’s wife and longtime creative collaborator. The book takes place on the Greek island of Hydra in the early Sixties, and features Leonard Cohen, who …

In February of 2018, G Herbo was sentenced two years of house arrest after officers caught him with a firearm while riding in a limo in his hometown of Chicago. For the next two years, he would begin to grapple with why: “It was from post traumatic stress disorder,” G …

Brandi Carlile took to social media to pay her respects to John Prine, singing a gentle version of the song “Summer’s End” and posting it to Instagram. The award-winning singer-songwriter died Tuesday due to complications from COVID-19 at the age of 73. “I’m gonna miss singin’ this one with you …

Todd Snider has said that he wouldn’t have a career without John Prine. In his early days as an open-mic singer, Snider studied Prine’s songwriting constantly, and he met his hero and worked for him as a runner while Prine was recording 1991’s The Missing Years. Prine soon signed Snider …

Mike and the Moonpies‘ Cheap Silver and Solid Country Gold, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, deftly mixed orchestral flourish with outlaw country. That seemingly unconventional mash-up is front and center on the exhilarating “Danger,” shipped to radio last month. Think of the song as the product of the “Waylon Philharmonic” …

James Taylor and Jackson Browne have postponed their joint summer tour due to coronavirus concerns. The trek, originally slated to kick off on May 15th in New Orleans, will be rescheduled in the coming months. Current tickets will be automatically honored toward the new dates. “As this summer’s tour of …