Music

One of the high points of Jesse Malin‘s latest album Sunset Kids is his duet with Lucinda Williams, “Dead On.” Williams produced the album with her husband-manager Tom Overby and lends her harmonies and songwriting to a number of tracks, but it’s “Dead On” that stands as the LP’s proper …

Earlier this month, 11E1even Group hosted an all-star livestream in tribute to Bill Withers, who died on March 30th. The entire one-hour livestream, featuring performances from Finneas, Stephen Marley and more, is now available to view on YouTube. Other performers who paid their respects to Withers included Nicki Bluhm, Marc …

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas covered Bobby Hebb’s Sixties hit “Sunny” during Global Citizen’sOne World: Together at Home special to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The eight-hour concert helped raise $127 million to help the World Health Organization’s efforts to fight the pandemic around the globe. Eilish prefaced the …

Charli XCX has taken on an ambitious project during quarantine: writing, recording and producing a full-length album, How I’m Feeling Now, by May 15th — using only the tools at her disposal in self-isolation and feedback from her fans via social media. Charli dropped the project’s first single, “Forever,” earlier …

The band Onipa, which specializes in merging traditional African musical styles with contemporary electronics, shine a light on the “everyday struggles of hard working people” in their new video for “Promised Land.” The lyrics offer a blunt indictment of contemporary inequality. “There was a promise of a promised land/Milk and …

Jesse Malin played his last live show before entering this quarantined life on March 13th in London. “The crowd was so good, I said to the band, ‘We’re going to leave some blood on this stage because we may not be back for a while,’” he says, calling from his …

The latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now honors two legends, gone too soon, with a never-before-heard interview with Bill Withers (conducted by senior writer Andy Greene, who spent time at Withers’ home for a 2015 feature ), along with intimate memories of John Prine from senior writer Patrick Doyle, …

Wynton Marsalis and an array of musicians from around the world will perform remote sets for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020 gala concert, Worldwide Concert for Our Culture, which will premiere April 15 at 7:30 p.m. EDT on various digital platforms. Paul Simon helped announce the event in a short …

Tucker Beathard‘s new single “You Would Think” is an emotionally-heavy ballad about the desire to be there for someone in times of need — if only they’d let you. Beathard personifies that conflict in a music video that follows a daughter as she tries to care for her alcoholic mother. …

Aphex Twin has updated his not-so-secret SoundCloud page with a batch of new music, including six previously unheard songs in the past week. Resident Advisor first reported on the latest drop from “user18081971,” which for five years has hosted hundreds of unreleased songs from the electronic music pioneer’s vaults; although …