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Over 45 music festivals from around the world have banded together to tackle gender inequality by pledging to achieve and maintain “a 50/50 gender balance across their festivals by 2022,” including live line-ups and conference participants. The PRS Foundation’s Keychange has recruited festivals like Liverpool Sound City, NYC Winter Jazzfest, …

Country Music Hall of Fame members the Oak Ridge Boys have recorded and released a jaunty rendition of Brandy Clark’s song “Pray to Jesus,” which will appear on their upcoming LP 17th Avenue Revival. Like the group’s recent release “Brand New Star,” “Pray to Jesus” – originally written by Clark …

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Styx will co-headline a North American tour this summer with heavy metal outfit Tesla serving as support. The trek kicks off May 30th at the FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, California and includes stops in Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Boston, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh. The …

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammettwent toe-to-toe with one of his idols, former UFO and Scorpions guitar player Michael Schenker, on the latter’s new song. On “Heart and Soul,” which will appear on Schenker’s upcoming LP, Resurrection, the two musicians trade off both bluesy and angular phrases before singer Robin McAuley brings …

Kendrick Lamar and SZA unveiled a striking new video for their new collaboration, “All the Stars,” which will appear on the Lamar-curated soundtrack for Marvel’s Black Panther. Dave Meyers and the Little Homies directed the new video, which mixes an African aesthetic with the grandiose feel of superhero flicks. In …

On “Sauce,” the third track of Justin Timberlake‘s just-released Man in the Woods, the pop superstar cedes the spotlight, letting a collaborator give a lesson in rhetoric. A philosophical gem comes courtesy of 21-year-old Gordon Terry, star of viral video clip explaining the difference between “the juice” and “the sauce” …

Fall Out Boy delivered a blistering rendition of “Hold Me Tight or Don’t” on The Late Late Show With James Corden Wednesday. The track appears on the band’s latest album, Mania. For the performance, Fall Out Boy ran with the Day of the Dead theme used in the “Hold Me …

Miranda Lambert shares the stage with the songwriters whose contributions helped shape her double albumThe Weight of These Wingsin a new episode of PBS’ Front and Center. Lambert’s appearance is part of a CMA Songwriters Series episode of the acclaimed music series, which returns foran eighth season beginning Friday, February …

Haim once again team with director Paul Thomas Anderson for the band’s live video for “Night So Long,” a track off the sisters’ latest album Something to Tell You. Recorded at the empty Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the video is composed close-ups on the Haim sisters’ faces as they …

MGMT know exactly how the world feels about everything they’ve done since their breakthrough 2007 debut LP, Oracular Spectacular. The psychedelic synth-pop duo – who met at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and crafted their early hits “Kids,” “Electric Feel” and “Time to Pretend” in their dorm rooms – became indie …