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On June 21st, 1964 three young civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi were brutally murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan while they participated in the Freedom Summer voter registration initiative. Racially-motivated killings were nothing new in that part of the country during the Jim Crow …

Australian loop pedal maestro Tash Sultana patiently assembles psychedelic symphonies in this exclusive Rolling Stone video. The emerging Melbourne singer-songwriter performs two shapeshifting singles from her 2016 EP, Notion – both of which showcase her dynamic guitar and vocal skills. Sultana opens with “Jungle,” layering a four-chord chug with an …

Two years after releasing the surprisingly mature goth-metal offering The Pale Emperor, Marilyn Manson has returned to straight-ahead shock. “I write songs to fight and to fuck to,” he sings on “Je$u$ Cri$i$,” from his 10th LP, over spiky, electro-hard-rock riffs that occasionally recall his glammy Mechanical Animals period. That …

For the past decade, the National Rifle Association has had a close, codependent relationship with the country music industry, from partnering with artists such as Florida Georgia Line and Lee Brice for cross-promotional campaigns to throwing annual celebrity skeet shoots hosted by Blake Shelton. “It’s no secret,” the Director of …

Bob Segerand the Silver Bullet Band postponed the rest of their 2017 Runaway Train Tour after the rocker received doctor’s orders to treat a medical issue concerning his vertebrae. “I’m so disappointed to have to suspend the tour as the band is on a great roll,” Seger said on his …

During the past decade, we’ve come to know Ezra Koenig as the frontman of the genre-jumbling, Grammy-winning indie-rock act Vampire Weekend and, more recently, the wry host of Time Crisis, his wonderfully all-over-the-place Beats1 show. Now, he’s added an unexpected line to his resume by creating Neo Yokio, an animated …

Kid Rock fired back at critics in a lengthy Facebook postMonday, claiming the recent controversy regarding his past use of Confederate flags onstage is a distraction created by the “extreme left” in an an attempt to “stir the pot” due to his potential, and presumably fake, Senate run in 2018. …

Sam Smith unveiled a poignant new song, “Too Good at Goodbyes.” The track marks the singer’s first new song since his 2015 Oscar-winning James Bond theme, “Writing’s On the Wall.” The piano-led song finds the singer pulling away from a volatile relationship. “But every time you hurt me, the less …