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When electronic-music artist Kurt Uenala was conceptualizing Cryosleep,the first album he’d be releasing under the name Null and Void, he knew he wanted to do a song that featured Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan. The two became friends about a decade ago, when Uenala was an audio engineer working with Gahan …

Thundercat, Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald reveal the healing power of a deep groove in the new video for “Show You the Way.” The track appears on Thundercat‘s recent album, Drunk. Katarzyna Sawicka and Carlos Lopez Estrada directed the clip, which actually continues the story started inThundercat’s 2015 video for …

Lionel Richie is set to produce a biopic about a fellow music legend after the singer secured the rights to Curtis Mayfield‘s life story. The former Commodores singer’s RichLion Productions acquired the rights from the Curtis Mayfield Estate, Deadline reports. Soul legend Mayfield, a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of …

The Smiths unearthed a previously unreleased demo for “I Know It’s Over” on Thursday. The track will appear on a deluxe reissue of The Queen Is Dead on October 20th. The demo of “I Know It’s Over” adheres closely to the final recorded version: Rumbly lines from Andy Rourke on …

Sean Penn honors the “music, words and way” of Tom Petty in a touching remembrance shared with Rolling Stone. Petty died Monday at the age of 66 after going into cardiac arrest. Penn collaborated with Petty and his band Mudcrutch in 2016, co-directing a music video with Samuel Bayer for …

In a poignant Charles Bradley tribute video from the late singer’s label, Daptone Records, the soul giant belts an a cappella version of his 2013 ballad “Victim of Love” outside the ornate St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. Jeff Broadway and Cory Bailey, co-directors of 2016 documentary Living on Soul: …

Shania Twain, NOWThe first album in 15 years from the Canadian country-pop superstar is “taking inspiration from the expansively chaotic sound of contemporary country pop – a sound she helped to shape in the first place,” writes Rob Sheffield.Read Our Review: Miley Cyrus, Shania Twain Reinvent Themselves Via Country Roots …

Lordetapped SZA, Khalid and Post Malone for a crackling remix of her Melodrama track, “Homemade Dynamite.” The three artists contribute fresh verses to the song and lay down vocals alongside Lorde‘s during the punchy chorus. Over the airy synths of “Homemade Dynamite,” Khalid and Post Malone unravel poignant verses while …

Pasquale Rotella is on his way to Burning Man via a tiny plane, which he loathes. “I’d rather pack up an RV and drive 15 hours and wait another seven hours in line,” he says with a laugh. That was how he used to travel the first 14 times he …

Following the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker, his longtime collaborator and bandmate Donald Fagen penned a tribute to the guitarist/bassist who died at the age of 67. In the tribute, Fagen reminisces about their time as college students and how a “very rough childhood” in part molded Becker …