Joan Jett Drops Cover of T. Rex’s ‘Jeepster’ From Hal Willner-Helmed Tribute Album (Listen)

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA$AP Ferg has dropped a new single called “Move Ya Hips,” a collaboration with Nicki Minaj and MadeinTYO that is about, well, moving your hips.

It is no secret that BTS member Jungkook likes Justin Bieber. The singer has shown his support towards the Canadian singer from time to time while Justin has reciprocated the same.

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Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a vision that "good trouble" could change the world.

John Lewis' body is being carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday. It's the bridge that he crossed in the march to Montgomery on March 7, 1965, a day that would become known as «Bloody Sunday.»«John was determined to fight for equality and justice, putting his own life on the line in the service of others and a brighter future for everyone,» said Congresswoman Terri Sewell on Sunday.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTaylor Swift surprise-announced that she will be releasing her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” at midnight tonight — July 24th.In a social media posts, Swift explained that the album is the result of many of her plans for 2020  — including a short stadium tour supporting her 2019 album “Lover”  — were scrapped due to the pandemic.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt appears that the lobbying by representatives for independent venues has at least begun to pay off on Capitol Hill: Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota introduced a new relief bill for indie venues impacted by the coronarvirus pandemic.The “Save Our Stages Act” would provide six months of financial support to help “keep venues afloat, pay employees and preserve a critical economic sector for communities across America,” according to the

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs a preview to their forthcoming “Goats Heads Soup” deluxe edition, the Rolling Stones have dropped “Scarlet,” a previously unreleased 1974 outtake featuring Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and former Traffic/Blind Faith bassist Ric Grech.Recorded in October of 1974, the song features some distinctive Page soloing over a choppy Keith Richards riff, and according to the tape box photographed in the song’s video (below), it also features the group’s longtime pianist and

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn what would have been Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell’s 56th birthday (July 20), his estate has posted the singer’s previously unreleased cover of Guns N’ Roses’ ballad, “Patience.”The song, originally released on GNR’s 1988 compilation “Lies,” unveiled a more acoustic and sensitive side of the band that it had showcased during low-key performances after the release of their debut album the previous year, “Appetite for Destruction” (although another song on the

Paul McCartney has called for the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to be renamed in honour of the late civil rights activist and US Congressman John Lewis.Lewis died at the age of 80 on Friday (July 17) from pancreatic cancer. He was the last survivor of the ‘Big Six’ civil rights activists, a group led by Rev.

John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80.

John Lewis passed away at the age of 80 on Friday, July 18. The son of sharecroppers famously survived police brutality during the milestone 1965 march in Selma, Alabama.

Civil rights hero and staunch LGBTQ ally John Lewis has died at the age of 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJesus and Mary Chain, Royal Trux and Spacemen 3 aren’t evoked by many albums these days, but they’re present in glorious splendor on “Flower of Devotion,” the third full-length from Chicago trio Dehd.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Records, has dropped “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version),” a previously unreleased early version of the song from the forthcoming expanded reissue of Prince’s classic 1987 album “Sign O’ the Times,” which is out September 25.“I Could Never Take the Place Of Your Man (1979 Version)” was recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Studio A on May 23, 1979, and engineered by Bob Mockler.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCharli XCX is releasing a documentary film called “6ft Apart,” based on the recording of her quarantine album, “How I’m Feeling Now,” which was released in May. The album, the first to be made in quarantine by a major artist.

Emmy-winning Jean Smart, fresh off of HBO's Watchmen, is set to star in Miss Macy, a feature from director Tate Taylor and Amblin Partners. The movie is based on the true story of Trisha Mitchell Coburn, a small town girl from Alabama who attended the Miss Macy charm school before being launched as a successful model.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVeteran rapper and activist Talib Kweli announced today that he will be launching his new album, “Cultural Currency,” via the independent subscription service, Patreon. While artists like Kimbra and Ani DiFranco have released songs through the service, Kweli is the first major artist to use it for a full album.While details on the album itself were scant, the Patreon plans are spelled out in detail on https://www.patreon.com/TalibKweli.