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Selena Gomez has released a demo version of her single “Lose You to Love Me.” The hit ballad appeared on her albumRare, released in January. Gomez co-wrote the single with her frequent collaborators Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels as well as producer Finneas, best known for his work with his …

Ani DiFranco encourages voting in the 2020 election in the new single “Do or Die.” Directed by Zoë Boekbinder, the accompanying video opens with DiFranco getting out of bed. “Do you ever just want to give up?” she sings. “Well, me too.” She shaves her head in her bathroom and …

As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making of key albums from the list. Radiohead‘s OK Computer came in at number 42. Before OK Computer, Radiohead were seen by many as the band behind …

Blood Orange‘s Devonté Hynes will release the score to HBO miniseries We Are Who We Are on October 2nd via Milan Records. The album features 12 pieces written by Hynes for the coming-of-age drama, along with four previously issued instrumentals from composers Julius Eastman and John Adams. The eight-episode show …

Drive-By Truckers have released a pointed lyric video for “21st Century USA,” one of the understated highlights from the band’s 2020 record, The Unraveling. “I wrote this song during a rest stop outside of Gillette, Wyoming in January of 2018,” says the band’s co-frontman Patterson Hood. “Its blending of the …

Steve Miller has unearthed his tribute to Jimi Hendrix — a rendition of his band’s “Peppa Sauce” recorded live on September 18th, 1970, the day Hendrix died — to mark the 50th anniversary of the guitar god’s death Friday. “The next song is in memory of Jimi Hendrix,” Miller told …

Journey frontman Arnel Pineda has teamed up with Taka of the Japanese band One Ok Rock to record a lockdown version of the 1981 Journey classic “Open Arms.” “Good day folks,” Pineda wrote on YouTube, “to honor the legacy of Journey’s Escape album, specifically Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry, …

James Blake has released his own version of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed,” accompanied by a stark music video of Blake performing the cover at his piano. Fans of both artists will know that Blake has some familiarity with the track, as he produced, arranged and played piano on Ocean’s original version …

Phoebe Bridgers swapped out her skeleton suit for a blazer in a performance for NPR‘s Tiny Desk series. With the ongoing pandemic, artists have been performing at home instead of at NPR, but Bridgers’ segment takes place “in” the Oval Office. Standing in front of the green screen, she’s flanked …

Rhett Miller plays diverse selections from the American music catalog — from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” — in the latest installment of the Mighty Song Writers web series. The Old 97’s frontman kicks off his 20-minute set with “Big River,” a song …