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The Black Eyed Peas and Epic Records have partnered with Irish visual artist Jack Coulter for a charity auction through Color of Change. The auction, featuring three of Coulter’s paintings, went live on Monday and will run through July 28th. The paintings are estimated to sell for $20,000 each. Color …

UPDATE: Ron Jeremy pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court Friday to three counts of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object and one count of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, the Associated Press reports. The judge also declined to reduce the $6.6 million bail for …

While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, thoroughly overwhelmed by the police-brutality protests that have swept the city over the past week, turned to John Lennon for solace. “I don’t mean to make light of this, but I’m reminded of the song ‘Imagine,’ by John …

When asked about turning 70 last year, Lionel Richie is jovial but resolute. “I don’t think anything about aging or getting older,” he tells Rolling Stonefrom his Los Angeles home. The four-time Grammy winner and seller of more than 90 million albums worldwide doesn’t have time to outline a memoir …

Vaughan Mason, the musician and producer whose influential disco-funk singles — most notably his 1980 roller skating anthem “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” — have been sampled by dozens of artists ranging from Daft Punk to a Tribe Called Quest, died Thursday of natural causes at the age of 69. Mason’s …

Bill Withers got a late start. He was nearing 30 when he began writing songs on a cheap guitar between shifts at an aircraft-parts factory. “I figured out that you didn’t need to be a virtuoso to accompany yourself,” he told Rolling Stone in 2015. A demo he made caught …

Last December, former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer got a text from Flea, asking him to come over to his Los Angeles home to “discuss the state of things.” Right away, he had a feeling something was wrong. The band had been deep into writing the follow-up to …

So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. So you want to make a viral hit: who better to help than …

Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, was sentenced to two years in prison plus five years of supervised probation in a gripping hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, featuring a surprise interruption from a man claiming to be the rapper’s biological father. The 24-month sentence includes the 13 …

Although Megadeth had hoped to record the follow-up to their 2016 album Dystopiathis year, frontman Dave Mustaine’s cancer diagnosis sidelined their progress. But despite the medical setback, the singer-guitarist is promising to release a handful of new tracks ahead of the band’s winter European tour. Before Megadeth paused work on …