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Brett Eldredge, whose latest single “The Long Way” is in the Top Thirty and climbing, will borrow the title from that hit for his first-ever headlining trek next year. Kicking off in Garden City, Idaho, on April 5th, the 11-city Long Way Tour is currently set to wrap on May …

“Two music nerds obsessing … sending each other mp3s” sings Björk euphorically over harp arpeggios, while multi-tracked Björks chirp cherubically in the background. The track, a very Björkian reverie titled “Blissing Me,” sets the tone for a record that’s in some ways a polar opposite to 2015’s incandescently brooding Vulnicura. …

“I wanted to write a love song in the age of technology,” says Wheeler Walker Jr. of his country weeper “Pictures on My Phone,” which, like the bulk of the filthy-mouthed parodist’s material, won’t be heard anytime soon on the radio. An ode to Walker’s preferred way of combatting loneliness …

Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward was forced to cancel a string of December shows with his new band Day of Errors due to heart problems. “I wound up in hospital this past weekend with heart problems,” Ward wrote on Facebook. “I am OK and in good recovery at this …

Miguel has unveiled his upbeat new song “Pineapple Skies,” the latest single off the R&B singer’s upcoming album War & Leisure. “Don’t forget to hold on tight / While we Stevie Wonder through the night,” Miguel sings over a funky bass line shimmering instrumental. “Come tomorrow seems so bright / …

Tyler, the Creatorunveiled his first tour dates for 2018. His Winter North American tour is in support of his recently released album, Flower Boy. The 23-date run kicks off on January 26th in Vancouver, BC at PNE Forum. The tour will take the rapper through the West Coast, Midwest and …

Last week, Ron Tutt, best known as Elvis Presley’s drummer from 1969 to 1977, did something he hadn’t done in nearly 40 years: He listened to the Jerry Garcia Band’s Cats Under the Stars. Appreciated as Garcia’s most fully realized and produced solo album outside the Grateful Dead, Cats Under …

On a desert road hours northeast of Los Angeles, the singer Miguel stands on a small makeshift stage of wooden pallets in his first act of political protest. Across the street is the Adelanto Detention Facility, temporary home to nearly 2,000 federal immigration detainees, and where guards quietly watch from …

Gary Clark Jr. had never so much as considered covering the Beatles’ “Come Together” until he was approached to play on a version of it for the Justice League soundtrack. It ended up being the most fun Clark has ever had in the studio. “I don’t know what ‘toe-jam football’ …

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra matchesAretha Franklin‘s vocals with a new kind of sweeping soul in a reworking of the 1968 track “Think” that will appear on the upcoming LPA Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, out November 10th. The record pairs Franklin’s classic vocal takes with …