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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 …

Lana Del Rey broke out earlier this decade by updating the sound of 20th century indie acts like Cocteau Twins and Mazzy Star, but with much of the mystery leeched out. Lately she’s been shapeshifting a bit, and that’s a good thing. There was her cameo on Cat Power’s “Woman,” …

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 …

On a late summer morning, Heloise Letissier — the 30-year-old pansexual pop phenomenon who’s garnered worldwide renown upending gender norms as Christine and the Queens — sits at an outdoor cafe in Manhattan’s East Village, drinking a glass of water. Though she is French, she neither smokes nor drinks, and …

UPDATE:A rep for Betts said that the musician’s surgery “was a success.” “The outpouring of support from all over the world has been overwhelming and amazing. We are so appreciative,” the rep said in a statement. “Thank you all so much for your wonderful thoughts and prayers. We will keep …

Beloved Nashville power-punk band Diarrhea Planet had already booked their farewell shows when Jason Isbell’s camp called offering an item on every Music City musician’s bucket list: a gig at the Ryman. “Being [from] Nashville, if somebody calls you and asks you to play at the Ryman, you can’t really …

“One fine morning I woke up early to find the fascist at my door,” sings Tom Waits in rough and mournful voice on “Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful),” a song from guitarist Marc Ribot‘s new album Goodbye Beautiful/Songs of Resistance 1942–2018. It’s not hard to see the modern parallel to this …

Gucci Mane recruits Bruno Mars and Kodak Black for the rapper’s latest single “Wake Up in the Sky,” a cut purportedly off the prolific Gucci Mane’s upcoming LP Evil Genius. Mars, who also produced the track, delivers the skyscraping chorus – “I drink ’til I’m drunk/ Smoke til I’m high …

Paul Oakenfold likes to boldly DJ where no man has DJ’ed before. In 2003, he became the first person to tote turntables onto the Great Wall of China. Last year, he played a set for the sherpas and mountaineers at Everest Base Camp. And on Thursday night, as the sun …

Rachid Taha, the French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk, has died from a heart attack at age 59. “It is with regret and immense sadness that his son Lyes, his family and relatives, his friends and his record label Naïve, announce …