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Moby claims that he once rubbed his penis on Donald Trump at a party before he became president, and in an appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher Friday, the Play artist spoke about the alleged incident, which he revealed in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart. “There was …

Little Big Town will return to host the annual CMT Music Awards for its 2019 edition, marking the second consecutive year of hosting for the quartet behind “The Daughters.” The fan-voted show takes place Wednesday, June 5th, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Nominations for the CMT Music Awards will be revealed …

Kansas City indie-rock artist Kevin Morby is a secular guy with a spiritual side, and on his fifth LP he thinks deep (and sometimes somewhat less deep) about the nature of religious devotion, tapping a rich lineage of transcendentally-minded musical history. The title track is a rollicking piano number that …

Violent Femmes recruited iconic Television guitarist Tom Verlaine for their surreal new song “Hotel Last Resort.” The five-minute track appears on the folk-punk band’s 10th LP of the same name, out July 26th via PIAS. Throughout the winding cut, guitarist Gordon Gano unfurls a series of intriguing lyrical vignettes (“I …

BBC Radio 3’s “Unclassified” offered the radio premiere of two new Thom Yorke songs, “Don’t Fear the Light” and “Gawpers,” which the singer recently played live in Paris. “Don’t Fear the Light” is a classical piece, arranged to be played by two pianos, electronics and modular synthesizer. The musician tapped …

Electro-pop group Blood on the Dance Floor’s catalog of hundreds of songs has been taken off Spotify for violating the music-streaming service’s prohibited content policy, which bans music that “promotes, advocates, or incites hatred or violence” against groups or individuals based on characteristics like gender, race and religion. The removal …

Synth-pop group LANY have released a new track, “Okay,” with Julia Michaels. The anthemic song features Michaels and LANY frontman Paul Klein on vocals over a rumbling instrumental of xx-style electric guitars and underwater synths. Lyrically, “Okay” describes recent breakups that the two protagonists have gone through, and light reassurance …

On March 10, Betty Wright — a successful singer, background vocalist, composer and producer with five decades of experience — watched the long-running soul group the O’Jays take the stage in Miami for a set at Jazz in the Gardens Music Fest. “People come from all over the world for …

The Joy Division story has been told many times, yet it never stops seeming too bizarre to be true. JonSavage, best known for his classic punk history, England’s Dreaming, was one of the band’s first chroniclers in the 1970s, but he tells the tale in a new way in his …

Chicago is making the most beautiful rap music in the world right now. Over half a decade removed from the drill scene’s peak, the subgenre’s musical descendants are blossoming. The subject matter — survival, betrayal and death — remains intact, but the music beneath the lyrics has turned from sinister …