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Charli XCX and Troye Sivan will co-curate and co-host the first annual Go West Fest, which will take place June 6th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The festival, part of LA’s Pride celebrations, will feature a lineup a lineup of LGBTQ+ artists and allies, including Pussy Riot, Dorian Electra, …

Ghostface Killah and RZA trade ferocious bars on a new song “On That Sht Again,” which will appear on a new EP to accompany the four-part Showtime docuseries about the Wu-Tang Clan, Of Mics and Men. “On That Sht Again” boasts a classic Wu-Tang-style beat, with piano and string loops …

Phantogram announced a North American summer tour that kicks off June 2nd in Camden, New Jersey and wraps with a slot at the Las Vegas festival Life Is Beautiful, scheduled for September 20th through the 22nd. General tickets go on sale Friday, May 17th at 10 a.m. local time. At …

Less than two weeks after investor Dentsu Aegis announced it was pulling the plug on Woodstock 50, the festival’s organizers fired back at the company on Wednesday through the courts. In a filing with the Supreme Court of New York, Michael Lang, the original festival’s co-founder, and other organizers requested …

In 1944, one week after the accidental death of his older brother Jack, 12-year-old J.R. Cash answered the altar call and accepted Jesus Christ as his savior at the First Baptist Church, the tiny house of worship his family attended three days a week in Dyess, Arkansas. It was at …

Last year, Tom Petty’s daughter Adria was in the home studio of Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, reviewing some of the material her father left behind. There, she first heard “For Real,” a plaintive, sparely arranged song written and recorded quickly in 2000 but never released. The song expressed her father’s …

Luke Combs takes some comfort from a reliable old friend his new single “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” released on Wednesday. The song is the “Beautiful Crazy” singer’s first release from an upcoming second album. Combs had previously been testing “Beer Never Broke My Heart” with audiences at his live …

Even for RZA, one of the Wu-Tang Clan’s most thoughtful members, 2019 is shaping up to be a particularly reflective year.Of Mics and Men, a four-hour documentary on the group directed by longtime hip-hop journalist turned director Sacha Jenkins, will premiere on Showtime May 10th. Getting every member to talk …

Lenny Kravitz has extended his tour in support of his 2018 album Raise Vibration with a new slate of North American dates this summer. The next leg of Kravitz’s two-year jaunt begins August 21st in Vienna, Virginia and concludes 18 shows later at Los Angeles’ the Shrine Auditorium on September …

Toby Keith follows up the poignant ballad “Don’t Let the Old Man In” with a raucous blast of country-music pride. “That’s Country Bro” is a classic list song, but instead of the usual run-through of rural imagery (trucks, bonfires and coolers), Keith ticks off a Hall of Fame-worthy roster of …