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Riley Green and Tenille Townes are the earliest winners at the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards, taking the New Male and New Female Artist of the Year honors, respectively. Both artists were surprised with the news on Thursday by ACM Awards host Keith Urban. Green was in a group …

Dirty Projectors have announcedSuper João, the third EP in a planned five-EP cycle for 2020, and have shared a teaser from the song collection, “Holy Mackerel.” The visual accompaniment features Dirty Projectors frontman Dave Longstreth appearing as a David Byrne-like figure, plucking Spanish guitar melodies in a suit while standing …

Norah Jones is the latest artist to perform for NPR’s at-home Tiny Desk series. In lieu of playing at the titular desk in the NPR offices, Jones broadcasted herself from her home, seated in front of a piano in her living room, where her collection of guitars could be seen …

Billie Eilish, the Chicks, John Legend and Common are among the artists that will perform during the four-day virtual Democratic National Convention, taking place August 17th to 20th. Leon Bridges, Stephen Stills, Jennifer Hudson, Maggie Rogers, Billy Porter and Prince Royce will also take part in the event officially anointing …

Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating” gets a clubbier update with the help of legends Madonna and Missy Elliott. The song will appear on the upcoming remix LP Club Future Nostalgia, which the Grammy winner worked on with DJ and producer the Blessed Madonna (formerly known as the Black Madonna). The “Levitating” remix …

Toots and the Maytals and Ziggy Marley have linked up for a new take on the Bob Marley classic, “Three Little Birds.” The cover completely transforms the original’s steady swaying groove into a punchy, rock-forward rhythm punctuated by bright horns, buzzing guitar lines and the tag-team vocals of Frederick “Toots” …

Jaden Smith brings a psychedelic look to quarantine in his video for “Cabin Fever,” the COVID-themed love song he released earlier this month. The visual — self-directed by Smith under the pseudonym Wavy Baby — shows him trying to ask a girl out by holding up signs outside her bedroom …

Billie Eilish returned with her new single “My Future” on Thursday — which is also her brother/collaborator Finneas‘ 23rd birthday. The song follows “No Time to Die,” the title track for a not-yet-unreleased James Bond film. Its corresponding animated video was created by Australian artist Andrew Onorato. “My Future,” which …

Korn have shared a hard-rock cover of Charlie Daniels’ signature song, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” featuring Alabama rapper Yelawolf. The track finds Korn recreating the song’s furious fiddle duel with a blaze of guitars, which adds the particularly ominous pall of heavy metal to Daniels’ classic tale. But …

Best Coast acknowledge that they became popular almost by accident. “We really had no aspirations at all,” multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno tells Rolling Stone. “We’ve always said: ‘A band could not have tried less to actively become a successful band than us.’” The world into which the duo dropped its debut …