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Joan Osborne will release her first album of all-new material in six years this September. Trouble and Strife is the soul singer’s 10th studio LP and comments on various social issues of life in 2020. In a statement, Osborne says the album is “a recognition of the important role music …

Ani DiFranco, Zoë Boekbinder, Terence Higgins and more will be participating in a prison reform benefit livestream, produced by Live From Out There and Righteous Babe. Prison Music Project Sessions: Long Time Gone will air as an album release party for the compilation LP of the same name on June …

Bandcamp will be donating 100 percent of its revenue on Juneteenth (June 19th) to the NAACP in solidarity with recent protests against police racism and brutality. CEO Ethan Diamond made the announcement on Monday, adding that Bandcamp would repeat the practice annually. “The recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, …

Crowded House frontman and current Fleetwood Mac member Neil Finn has enlisted the help of his bandmates Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie for a new song, “Find Your Way Back Home.” The track was released in partnership with the homeless shelter Auckland City Mission, based in Finn’s native New Zealand, …

Dave Grohl. Peter Gabriel. T Bone Burnett. Twenty years later, the bold-face names that helped launch Joseph Arthur’s career return in a flood of memories. “The cast of characters who made that project brings back so much love in my heart about it,” Arthur says. The project was Arthur’s career-defining …

While on tour in 2018, rising electro-pop artist Elohim kept having chronic panic attacks. Once she returned home, Elohim — who keeps her real name hidden and has often appeared with her face obscured — filmed a soothing video for “Panic Attacks,” a song featuring singer-songwriter Yoshi Flower. She views …

This is the 12th installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronavirus pandemic. This edition features Peter Shapiro — renowned concert promoter and owner of Brooklyn Bowl, the Capitol Theatre, and Relix Magazine — who’s doing his best …

Phoebe Bridgers originally titled her new single “ICU,” but upon its release on Tuesday, she’s changed it to “I See You,” due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, or, as she explains, “*gestures at entire world*.” The track opens with a tumultuous, skittering intro as Bridgers’ vocals enter: “I’ve been playing …

Though he spends a big part of his life onstage in entertainer mode, Kip Moore doesn’t mind a bit of solitude. Since the pandemic began forcing shutdowns in March, the “More Girls Like You” singer has been hunkered down in East Kentucky, just being quiet and contemplative —writing songs, reading, …

Quarantine hasn’t stopped Big Freedia from releasing one of her signature bounce party tracks, this time collaborating with Swedish duo Icona Pop and New Orleans brass band The Soul Rebels on “Pipe That.” With The Soul Rebels laying down a horn-powered backing groove and Icona Pop on backing vocals, Big …