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De La Soul Blast 'Redundant' Hip-Hop With First Single Since 2004 | ARTICLE

Next week De La Soul will independently issue their first song and video in nine years, "Get Away (feat. the spirit of Wu-Tang)," in the first of the hip-hop group's planned series of monthly single...
April 4, 2013 12:45 PM ET
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Set to Record Jazz Album in June | ARTICLE

The hip injury that led to Lady Gaga's canceled world tour last month will not prevent her from recording a jazz album with Tony Bennett as scheduled, Bennett told Rolling Stone in an interview...
March 22, 2013 1:00 PM ET
Amy Winehouse Gala Honors Tony Bennett and Nas in New York | ARTICLE

The Amy Winehouse Foundation's Gala and Inspiration Awards on Thursday at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York featured honoree Tony Bennett, performer Jennifer Hudson and a guest list including Sean Lennon, Mark Ronson and Harry Belafonte....
March 22, 2013 11:45 AM ET
Q-Tip Plans Studio Time With A Tribe Called Quest Members | ARTICLE

After a 15-year break from recording together, can A Tribe Called Quest kick it again? Fresh from playing a gig with Prince at SXSW, the group's members may be crossing paths in the studio; Q-Tip...
March 19, 2013 3:45 PM ET
Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith Lobbies for Music Education in Washington | ARTICLE

Long before Condoleezza Rice, Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee or John Kerry took up politics, they picked up a musical instrument. As a senator, Trent Lott formed a barbershop quartet, and the late senator Robert Byrd played a...
March 19, 2013 10:25 AM ET
Three Cuban Bands Cleared to Make Live U.S. Debut at SXSW | ARTICLE

On Friday night, when Escape take the stage at South by Southwest, their 40-minute set will end a two-year wrangle between activists and government officials over whether the Cuban heavy metal band would be the first...
March 12, 2013 11:45 AM ET
Patti Smith, Jim James Top Tibet Benefit in New York | ARTICLE

Days after the 100th Tibetan monk sacrificed himself in flames to protest six decades of Chinese rule, a lineup in New York including Patti Smith, Tune-Yards, beatboxer Rahzel and My Morning Jacket's Jim James...
February 22, 2013 1:10 PM ET
Amy Winehouse Foundation Event Teases First Gala, Set for March | ARTICLE

Late Monday night in New York, minutes before a DJ played a few songs Amy Winehouse recorded as a teenager, her father thanked Tony Bennett for supporting the American arm of the foundation the...
February 5, 2013 1:00 PM ET
Rodriguez Weighs Potential Third Album | ARTICLE

Rodriguez, the obscure Detroit songman who unknowingly earned a huge cult audience overseas, will meet with producers to discuss making a third album, his first in more than 40 years. Though adamant about having no specific plan,...
January 29, 2013 11:20 AM ET
James Taylor Plans Year Off to Make New Album | ARTICLE

As his career in music approaches 50 years, James Taylor names an unusual inspiration for his songs: boredom. Starting today, he plans a self-imposed recess from the road and dedicate the rest of this year to...
January 22, 2013 10:15 AM ET
Lucinda Williams Has '40-Plus' Songs for 10th Studio Album | ARTICLE

More than 40 unheard songs await recording once Lucinda Williams wraps a month-long tour in early February and secures her first new contract in 15 years, the singer-songwriter tells Rolling Stone. "We've got a couple...
January 15, 2013 12:40 PM ET
Peter Gabriel, Billy Bragg Join the Voice Project's Album for Peace in Africa | ARTICLE

Can music disarm a regime and disrupt a war? In Africa's most violent and oppressive regions, victims of rape and torture are using songs to forgive their attackers and encourage their exit from the Lord's Resistance Army....
January 10, 2013 12:00 PM ET
Talib Kweli Sets New Album Date; No Plans for Black Star | ARTICLE

In the 15 years since Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (then Mos Def) released their hip-hop breakthrough together under the name Black Star, the MCs have each issued an abundance of music while maintaining only spurts...
January 9, 2013 2:20 PM ET
West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols to Exhibit Art Made on Death Row | ARTICLE

When he wasn’t meditating for hours on end while imprisoned on Arkansas’ death row, Damien Echols scavenged for art supplies. For 18 years, he enshrined his cell with his creations, until a plea finally freed him and...
January 5, 2013 10:05 AM ET
Neil Young's Pono Plans Take Shape With New Trademarks | ARTICLE

Evidence of Neil Young's latest move to brand and market Pono, his forthcoming music service featuring high-resolution master downloads of songs, can be found in his recent federal trademark applications for a pair of slogans –...
December 19, 2012 9:00 AM ET
Jackson Browne and Common Unite to Bring Leonard Peltier Home | ARTICLE

During a phone call from a Florida prison minutes before Friday’s concert for Leonard Peltier, the activist jailed for the last 37 years pushed organizers at New York's Beacon Theatre to refuse money pledged in his honor. "I...
December 15, 2012 11:35 AM ET
Jackson Browne, Common, Pete Seeger and More Rally to Free Leonard Peltier | ARTICLE

Last December, an Illinois mother sentenced to 22 years in prison for selling crack cocaine was released eight years early when, in a rare moment for his presidency, Barack Obama ordered an immediate release. The case represented...
December 13, 2012 2:55 PM ET
Das Racist's Victor 'Kool A.D.' Vazquez on Why the Rap Trio Split | ARTICLE

Official word of Das Racist's demise was scheduled to break soon, Victor "Kool A.D." Vazquez tells Rolling Stone, but an abrupt announcement from Himanshu "Heems" Suri at this weekend's On3 Festival in Germany upended the Brooklyn hip-hop...
December 3, 2012 5:20 PM ET
Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen Lead Stand Up for Heroes Benefit | ARTICLE

"For sometimes, even the strongest soldier falls," sang a band of 14 veterans backing Roger Waters and guitarist G.E. Smith at New York's Beacon Theatre, closing a set that included Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and...
November 9, 2012 12:15 PM ET
Roger Waters 'Absolutely Determined to Make Another Album' | ARTICLE

More than 20 years since making a rock concept record, Roger Waters tells Rolling Stone he has finished a song for an album tentatively titled Heartland. Completed on lunch breaks during the elaborate Wall tour that...
November 6, 2012 11:45 AM ET