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Chris Lane will close out 2018 headlining a series of shows on his newly announced Laps Around the Sun Tour, which gets underway in October. Named for his recently released LP, Lane’s new tour will embark October 12th from Gulf Breeze, Florida, and wrap up December 15th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. …

Wiz Khalifa and Rae Sremmurd‘s Swae Lee unveiled a scintillating new video for their song, “Hopeless Romantic.” The TK McKamy-directed clip uses the power of green screen technology to place Wiz and Swae Lee in a world made up entirely of naked women. The pair dance, spit their verses, set …

Over the weekend, the non-profit organization Leadership Tennessee presented Dolly Parton with the inaugural Dolly Parton Excellence in Leadership Award at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Parton’s award comes after the singer’s lifetime of charitable work in her homestate, from her long-running Imagination Library, which …

EDITORS’ PICK: Jake Shears, Jake Shears For his first solo album, the Scissor Sisters frontman “moved to New Orleans, wrote himself out of a cataclysmic breakup, and then recorded in Louisville, Kentucky,”writes Barry Walters. “The result overflows with the opulence of orchestral Seventies pop – as if ELO and the …

While on tour last fall in support of their symphonic-themed album Synthesis,Evanescence documented a concert they held with accompaniment from a full orchestra. They performed a number of songs from the recent album as well as hits like “Bring Me to Life” and “My Immortal” with added drama. They’ll be …

Anyone buying Kamasi Washington‘s latest album, Heaven and Earth, expecting four LPs’ worth of shimmering spiritual jazz was in for a surprise: There was actually a fifth. Sealed inside a perforated pocket in the center of the package is The Choice, an unannounced record (or, on smaller racks, a CD) …

Seeing nearly any musical act that reached the pinnacle of their success decades earlier is often a nostalgic event to some degree. But Weezer kick off the set on their ongoing summer tour with a moment of such intense, overpowering nostalgia that it almost threatens to rip a hole in …

Dev Hynes’ Blood Orange project released videos for two new songs, “Charcoal Baby” and “Jewelry,” from his upcoming albumNegro Swan, out August 24th via Domino. On “Charcoal Baby,” Blood Orange captures the vibe of a slick R&B pop song – silky vocals, soaring saxophone – but deftly tweaks the formula …

Janelle Monáe made her Late Show With Stephen Colbert debut Friday to perform her Dirty Computer rave-up “Americans.” The performance featured the singer rallying around a group of dancers, including Pose actress MJ Rodriguez, to celebrate Monáe’s all-inclusive redefining of patriotism. “Don’t try to take my country, I will defend …

Def Leppard recorded a nearly note-perfect rendition of the title track of their 1987 blockbuster album Hysteria, as well as a heavy cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus,” at Spotify’s recording studio for the streaming service’s “Spotify Singles” series. “Hysteria” features a little bluesier guitar soloing here and there and …