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Mick Jagger is “doing very well” after the singer’s reported heart surgery, which the singer underwent just days after the Rolling Stones postponed their upcoming stadium tour. “Mick Jagger has successfully undergone treatment. He is doing very well and is expected to make a full recovery,” a representative for the …

Green Day have collectively co-authored a book titled Last of the American Girls. The full-color text, illustrated by cartoonist Frank Caruso, will be released on October 29th via Dey Street Books. Named after the song “Last of the American Girls” off 21st Century Breakdown, the book is described as “an …

Machine Gun Kelly will embark on a North American tour this summer in support of his forthcoming album, Hotel Diablo. The tour is set to play Rockingham, North Carolina May 10th, but the trek officially gets underway May 31st in Cincinnati, Ohio. The run will stretch through June, wrapping on …

Swedish hard rock outfit Ghost will embark on a North American tour this fall in support of their 2018 album, Prequelle. The “Ultaimte Tour Named Death” trek will launch September 13th at the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, California and stretch through the following month, wrapping October 26th at Cool Insuring …

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor recalled his lifelong love of the Cure while inducting the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Friday. In a 2018 interview with The Quietus, Reznor spoke at length about discovering the Cure after leaving his rural hometown for college. Reznor specifically cited …

Fronted by vocalists Mireya Ramos and Shae Fiol, the Latin Grammy-winning, all-female mariachi ensemble Flor de Toloache have released a new video for their intoxicating single, “Besos de Mezcal,” or “Kisses of Mezcal.” It is the first single off their yet-untitled album, due out in May. The coquettish, pan-Latin dance …

The firstNigeria 70compilationwas an ear-opener for fans of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, cultural ambassadors whose Nigerian exports blew the minds of funky post-punks and disco connoisseurs in the U.S. and U.K. in the 1980s.Nigeria 70version 1.0 laid out a banquet of tracks by those men and lesser-known peers: …

Walking the Floor goes live this week. Recorded onsite during the annual Luck Reunion festival, the podcast finds Chris Shiflett talking with Shakey Graves in front of an audience of SXSWers and roots-music fans. The result is a quick, spirited conversation between the two songwriters, both of whom cut their …

Lana Del Rey delivered her first concert of 2019 on Friday night as the headlining act at the Buku Music + Art Project in New Orleans, where the “Venice Bitch” singer performed “Mariners Apartment Complex” for the first time, as part of a medley with “Video Games” and “High By …

Ann Marie is an R&B star in a world that’s currently low on them. Much of her style feels like an anomaly: R&B’s streaming elite are typically mysterious mush-mouthed singers who forgo longing for drug-fueled existential dread. Ann Marie, along with a new class of singers like Ella Mai and …