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This past June, R&B singer Cautious Clay was on tour in Bergen, Norway when he received a frantic 2 a.m. phone call from his lawyer. “They were like, ‘You have to approve this sample….We need an answer in 24 hours.” The request was coming from an unlikely source: Taylor Swift. …

Iggy Pop is 72 and in some alternate universe, he’s living in a suburban Detroit trailer park collecting pension checks, proudly wearing a shirt. But not in this one. In this world, he’s still a mass of nude, rubbery skin. He still writhes to gritty, lubricious sex rawkers. He still …

When you listen to “Worthless Abominations Destroyed,” the new “single” from Mayhem’s forthcoming album Daemon, you’re supposed to feel what Teloch, the band’s guitarist and songwriter for this cheery ray of sunshine, calls an “all is lost and hopeless” feeling. That’s considered a virtue in black metal, the extremely extreme …

When it comes to the Highwomen‘s terrific self-titled debut album, out this Friday, it’s tempting to try and think about the record outside of the constructs of gender. The “women in music” trope is an enticing one, particularly when it comes to criticism, and part of the reason we too …

Roger Waters participated in a pro-Julian Assange rally at London’s Home Office on Monday where he pressed for the release of the Wikileaks founder from prison and performed the 1975 Pink Floyd classic “Wish You Were Here.” “How do we put ourselves in the position of a Julian Assange in …

1511 days, 36,264 hours, 2,175,840 minutes, and 130,550,400 seconds passed from the last time Ms. Lauryn Hill released recorded music, until the release of “Coming Home” on Wednesday. Pusha T still seems in disbelief that the elusive Hill said “yes” to giving him a feature. Sonically, “Coming Home” is the …

Steep Canyon Rangers find an unlikely, but welcome, group of collaborators in the hit Nineties R&B group Boyz II Men, who add their voices to a newly released version of “Be Still Moses.” The gospel tune, originally recorded by Steep Canyon Rangers and released on the 2007 album Lovin’ Pretty …

Charli XCX has contributed a new song, “Miss U,” to the 13 Reasons Why soundtrack. The release of “Miss U” and the soundtrack coincides with the Netflix series’ Season 3 premiere Friday. Musically, “Miss U” is as close to a ballad as we’ve heard from Charli XCX, its lyrics fitting …

I wanted While I’m Livin’ to be a full circle moment for Tanya Tucker. I wanted songs on par with “Delta Dawn” and “What’s Your Mama’s Name,” and I also wanted to bring in an Americana element. The thing that comes to mind when I think of Tanya vocally is …

Tanya Tucker, unmistakable with her neon pink hairdo, is sitting at the bar — “my office,” she calls it — of an old-school Italian eatery in Nashville’s midtown neighborhood. The 60-year-old country singer who shot to fame with “Delta Dawn” in 1972 at 13 and appeared on the cover of …