Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain first got the idea for his book Don't Stop Believin': The Man, the Band, and the Song That Inspired Generations (in stores May 1st) while traveling

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Janelle Monáe is crying in her spacesuit. It's early April in Atlanta, and she's in one of the basement studios of her Wondaland Records headquarters, surrounded by computer monitors and TV screens, one of them running a screensaver that displays images of her heroes: Prince, Martin Luther King Jr., Pam Grier, Tina Turner, Lupita Nyong'o, David Bowie. She's about to reveal, for the first time,

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Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Booker T. Jones will be releasing his long-awaited memoir this fall. The leader of the Stax Records house band and Memphis soul legend's as-yet-untitled tome is projected for release this fall via Little, Brown and Company. An audiobook version

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Dashboard Confessional and Brantley Gilbert have teamed to raise money to benefit the victims of the shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House

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Two weeks after Meek Mill spoke with Lester Holt from prison, he returned to NBC Nightly News for a second interview. Only this time, he was a free man: On Tuesday, the

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On Wednesday, 415 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass the Music Modernization Act, a mega bill that aims to radically improve and streamline the system through which music creators are paid.

As passed in the House, the MMA – which has garnered wide support from the music industry – would update a decades-old system of mechanical licensing, set a

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse are returning after a four-year absence for a pair of shows at the Warnors Theater in Fresno, California on May 1st and May 2nd, but they'll be playing without guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro for the first time since he joined the band in 1975. E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren,

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Stephen Malkmus returns to range life in the Jicks' wry new Western ballad, "Refute." With vocal assist from Kim Gordon, the song is the third single off the band's upcoming record, Sparkle Hard, out May 18th on Matador.

Riding the same wheat-chewing wave as the album's lead single, "Middle America,"

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Kali Uchis celebrates the afterlife in her surreal "Get Up" video, which combines her songs "Gotta Get Up" and "Body Language."

The self-directed clip opens with the R&B singer attending her own funeral. Her eyes glow after glancing at her lifeless body in a coffin. Suddenly, she beams into a realm filled with swimming pools, rain-dancing and roses.

Both tracks highlight

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Shamir Bailey has come far from where he was both musically and mentally just one year ago. 

Last spring, the 23-year-old Philly resident was ready to leave his recording career behind after a few years of feeling trapped in a major label deal that left him creatively stifled. While his manager and the label executives wanted more of the electro-pop direction of his

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Emerging from the Black Power era of the late Sixties and early Seventies, experimenting with street poetry and percussive sound, the music of Harlem's Last Poets helped lay the groundwork for hip-hop. The intense Black Nationalist fare of their 1970 self-titled debut was not only politically explosive – it's most famous tracks include "When the Revolution Comes" and "Niggers Are Scared of

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A $5 million lawsuit that accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault was dismissed Wednesday. The lawsuit was initially filed in January by filmmaker Jennifer Jarosik,

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Dave Matthews Band will release their ninth studio album, Come Tomorrow, on June 8th via RCA Records. The group has yet to detail a tracklist for the LP, which follows their chart-topping 2012 set,

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There's a 1978 interview with Eddie Money, the radio-staple rocker whose biggest hits still adorn every classic-rock station and outdoor bar serving Mai Tais and Bahama Mamas, on YouTube that perfectly sums up the "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Take Me Home Tonight" singer. The Long Island–via–Brooklyn musician was

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Chvrches navigate turbulent streets filled with rioting, fist fights and splattering paint in their new "Miracle" video.

Singer Lauren Mayberry calmly strolls through the

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Father John Misty has shared his disorienting new video for "Mr. Tillman," the first single off his upcoming new album God's Favorite Customer.

Just as the song's lyrics zero in on the singer's unpleasant experience at a hotel, the "Mr. Tillman" video is like The Shining meets

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It's ironic that social media jerks tease Jermaine Cole with "J. Cole went platinum with no features." Once seen as an understudy to generational talents like Kendrick Lamar and Drake, the North Carolina musician didn't reach artistic fruition until 2014 Forest Hills Drive, when he abandoned the typical cameo-heavy big-budget formula for an idiosyncratic, self-produced organic sound

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Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon dubbed Questlove a "human Shazam" on Tuesday's episode, and the Roots drummer backed up that lofty title during a jaw-dropping Prince edition of "One Second Song Quiz." 

Fallon played the

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A little over a month ago, the majority of Fleetwood Mac – Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood – quietly gathered at a little theater in Maui with their future in doubt. The band had

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She & Him, the folk duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, unveiled a new song with two versions, "She Gives Her Love to Me" and "He Gives His Love to Me," for MGM Resorts' expanding Universal Love project.

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