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Why would Butthole Surfers want to make a coffee table book to recount their history? Frontman Gibby Haynes’ answer is typically bizarre: “We’re all history buffs. We drink coffee. We like tables. Personally, I’m a big fan of the Cherner oval dining table. And the book wasn’t our idea.” The …

The Steel Woods pay tribute to their roots — both geographically and musically — with a new cover of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ “Southern Accents.” Released on next year’s Old News, “Southern Accents” turns Petty’s 1985 original into a Southern rock power ballad. The bridge, which the Heartbreakers treated …

A private screening of Lifetime’s upcoming R. Kelly docu-series, Surviving R. Kelly, was canceled and evacuated in New York after a gun threat was called into the venue Tuesday night, Rolling Stone has learned. “At tonight’s premiere of Lifetime’s documentary series Surviving R. Kelly at NeueHouse Madison Square, several anonymous …

Blake Shelton has added a new entry in his “Friends and Heroes” series, releasing an appropriately anxious cover of Eddie Rabbitt’s 1979 hit “Every Which Way but Loose.” It joins Shelton’s recent covers of Bobby Bare’s “Tequila Sheila” and George Jones’ “The King Is Gone.” The Voice coach plays it …

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has added reggae to its list of cultural institutions worthy of protection and preservation, the BBC reports. Each year, UNESCO adds to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and Jamaica submitted reggae for consideration earlier this year. …

“Don’t be scared,” Kacey Musgraves says to the Grand Ole Opry audience in a new video, just as her band launches into the disco-tinged tune “High Horse.” It’s half in jest, because Musgraves and her band — spread out across the front of the Opry stage — give the most danceable …

Lin-Manuel Miranda writes a love letter to New York in “Cheering for Me Now.” The uplifting track about New York’s ratification of the constitution, with music by lauded composer John Kander (Cabaret, Chicago), is Miranda’s penultimate Hamildrops release. In the black-and-white video for “Cheering for Me Now,” the Hamilton creator …

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers celebrate in the face of impending doom in their new “Apocalypse Now (& Later)” video.Security-style footage captures the band performing their folk-rock track, interspersed with various clips that contrast the dark (crumbing buildings, riots, fires) and light (people kissing and enjoying ice cream …

Serial killers’ personal effects, morticians’ instruments, human and animal skulls, autopsy photos of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, an electric chair, gruesome crime scene images — L.A.’s Museum of Death houses it all. One particular gallery, dubbed the Suicide Hall, displays memorabilia related to the American cult groups the …

“We pray to the God/ of collateral children,” sings Rosanne Cash in her verse of “8 Gods of Harlem,” a standout on her 14th studio album that enlists Kris Kristofferson and Elvis Costello as co-writers, each singing a verse in a narrative constellation involving a young man’s death. The song …