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Michael McDonald has released audio from his live rendition of “What the World Needs Now,” originally written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach in 1965. The timely concert recording premiered on Billboard alongside a lyric video, depicting heartwarming home videos of family and the outdoors. McDonald told Billboard that he likes …

Stephen Colbert had another Stephen, acclaimed author Stephen King, on The Late Show Tuesday night, where he asked King how he was able to so accurately predict the coronavirus crisis. “People have been telling me for years that I sort of foresaw Donald Trump,” King said. “I wrote a book called The …

Alice Bag, Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, Speedy Ortiz, DIIV, Geoff Rickly of Thursday, and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo are among the hundreds of musicians to sign a new letter to Congress demanding more aid for musicians struggling during the COVID-19 crisis. The organization behind the letter is the newly launched labor …

Earlier this week, Sting appeared with Shaggy on an installment ofRolling Stone’s In My Room IGTV series, and now, the artist and former Police frontman is back with his own video, where he called in from his home in Wiltshire, England. “I’m lucky enough to have a recording studio here, …

On Saturday night, a multigenerational who’s who of hitmakers, including the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, and Taylor Swift, performed for an audience of more than 270 million across all platforms as part of Global Citizen‘s One World: Together at Home. The last two hours of the …

UPDATE 2/4/21: Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Thom Yorke has canceled the U.S. leg of his Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes tour: UPDATE:Thom Yorke is postponing his previously rescheduled U.S. fall tour, the artist announced via Twitter. While the new dates have not yet been released, the Washington, D.C., Chicago and …

Paul McCartney called on China to better regulate its so-called “wet markets” — one of which could have been the source of the COVID-19 outbreak — during an interview with Howard Stern Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. One of the earliest cases of the coronavirus was found in a …

Just a few hours before my interview with Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, he sent out a tweet so dystopian that I had to take a moment to breathe: “Wawa sent a 53-foot refrigerated truck to Bergen County after hearing about our need for refrigerated trucks to help take …

John Mayer made a “generous” donation to Livingston HealthCare hospital in Livingston, Montana, which hospital officials said will go toward the purchase of much-needed ventilators in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. As The Livingston Enterprise reports, Mayer is a part-time resident of Park County, where the hospital is located. …

This past weekend, Jewel raised more than $550,000 for at-risk and homeless youth through her Live From San Quarantine: A Livestream Concert, in partnership with her Never Broken charity program. Never Broken, a part of the Inspiring Children Foundation, was originally scheduled to host a concert fundraiser this summer with …