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Citizen Kane. Casablanca. The Godfather. Sicko Mode. Not many music videos can reduce the chaos, hedonism and beauty of modern life into an undeniable banger. Directed by Dave Meyers and Travis Scott, the “Sicko Mode” visual is a monument to Texas, but more importantly the eclectic mind of Astroworld‘s primary …

When Rolling Stone visited Mumford & Sons in the studio last month, the band talked about the excitement they felt returning to acoustic instruments while recording their fourth album Delta. On 2015’s Wilder Mind, they largely abandoned them in favor of synthesizers and electric guitars. “There weren’t many boundaries musically,” …

Cyndi Lauper has tapped A$AP Rocky, Bebe Rexha, Amanda Palmer and more to appear at her eighth annual “Cyndi Lauper and Friends: Home for the Holidays” benefit concert. The show will take place December 8th at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. The eclectic lineup will also feature blues …

Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, Elvis Costello and Nickelback were among the musicians enlisted by Jimmy Kimmel for his latest edition of “Mean Tweets.” Targeted to last night’s American Music Awards, the musicians gamely read negative tweets about themselves and then responded. Other artists in the segment include Halsey, The Chainsmokers, …

The influential black-metal band Mayhem will reissue their second album, 2000’s Grand Declaration of War, later this fall. The album, which came six years after their celebrated first LP, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, found the group incorporating elements of prog and art-rock into its typically grim sound. Drummer Hellhammer and …

When Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, the Cranberries‘ major-label debut, was released in March of 1993, “we were gutted,” says Noel Hogan, the band’s guitarist and co-songwriter. The reason? “It came out and basically disappeared without a trace,” he recalls. “So we figured, ‘That’s it. We’re …

Paul McCartney paid tribute to the humor, work ethic and fearlessness of late audio engineer Geoff Emerick, who died Tuesday from a heart attack at age 72. Emerick worked on some of the Beatles‘ most revered albums, including Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bandand Abbey Road.“I’ll always remember him …

When Annie Clark was mixing last year’s critically acclaimed Masseduction, she cut another version of the same album that she’s since dubbed MassEducation. The reworked LP, which will come out on October 12th, features only her on vocals and Thomas Bartlett on piano. She described the record in a statement …

LCD Soundsystem’s music video for American Dream single “Oh Baby” is a six-minute mini-drama directed by sci-fi auteur Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper) and starring Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn, that takes on the big questions about life, death and DIY teleportation. The clip was originally posted …

Weezer recruit “Weird Al” Yankovic and a band of doppelgängers for the video for their surprise hit cover of Toto‘s “Africa.” Yankovic plays a Rivers Cuomo replica in the video, which sees the faux-Weezer performing their version of the 1982 single against the blue backdrop of a television studio, recreating …