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Ahead of the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards telecast on April 15th, the winners in the new artist category have been revealed, and their respective victories mark the first-ever ACM wins for all three. Midland are the New Vocal Group of the Year, while Brett Young has been selected …

Shawn Mendes battles anxiety and loneliness in his new power ballad, “In My Blood.” Mendes charts a course from victim to victory on his latest single. The opening of the song is soft and despairing: “Laying on the bathroom floor, feeling nothing/ I’m overwhelmed and insecure, give me something,” Mendes …

Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation has thrown their support behind a new app that aims to reduce incarceration and recidivism in the criminal justice system. Promise, an app co-founded by social entrepreneur and former Prince manager Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, hopes “to create a sustainable and scalable program that will reduce the number of …

Rivers Cuomounveiled a surprise new single, “Medicine for Melancholy.” The song is theWeezer frontman’s first as a solo artist. Unlike the riff-heavy Weezer catalog, “Medicine for Melancholy” finds Cuomo backed by sweeping synths and handclapped beats while still boasting Weezer’s penchant for big hooks. “We got that Friday feeling / …

Kimberly Campbell, the widow of Country Music Hall of Fame member Glen Campbell, has filed a claim against the estate of her late husband, seeking reimbursement for expenses incurred while caring for the country singer while he battled Alzheimer’s disease. Kim Campbell filed the claim on March 8th in Davidson …

You only need to listen to Def Leppard‘s “Rocket” to hear how much frontman Joe Elliott loves glam rock. The lyrics pay tribute to David Bowie, Lou Reed, T. Rex, Queen and Sweet all in the space of about six minutes. So when Rolling Stone asked Elliott for a contribution …

Nick Gordon, the former boyfriend ofBobby Brown and Whitney Houston’s daughterBobbi Kristina Brown and the man found “legally responsible” for her death, was arrested Saturday in Florida on a domestic violence charge. According to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, Gordon was arrested on one charge of “battery — touch or …

The Cranberries will move forward with a new album and a 25th anniversary reissue of their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We.The group put the reissue project on hold after their singer, Dolores O’Riordan, died in January. The band’s surviving members said it had already …

Singer-songwriter Neko Case unveiled a new song, “Hell-On,” the deceptively sinister title-track from her upcoming album, out June 1st via Anti. “Hell-On” boasts a smoldering mix of guitar plucks, muted drums and swelling strings, over which Case sings in a sweetened voice, “You cannot time its table, it sets no …

A collection of unpublished Lou Reed poems will be released this spring as Do Angels Need Haircuts? The book will be accompanied by a 1971 recording of the Velvet Underground singer reciting the works at New York’s St. Mark’s Church. Do Angels Need Haircuts?, due out in April, features 12 …