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On March 8th, Nashville’s Big Machine Label Group sent out an email in honor of International Women’s Day featuring images of female artists on their roster. “Today, and every day, we celebrate the women of Big Machine,” it read, with photos of Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott, Carly Pearce, and Lauren …

Every night I dream about going out to hear music. The bands in my sleep are terrible, but I’m always sorry when I wake up and it’s over. The other night I dreamed I stood in a Brooklyn basement watching a god-awful punk band called “Bestie.” The singer pogo’d on …

The Minutemen‘s Mike Watt, the Runaways‘ Cherie Currie, Eddie Spaghetti, Josie Cotton and more punk luminaries have teamed for a new COVID-19 benefit song, “Flatten the Curve.” Proceeds from the track will benefit the Jubilee Consortium and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. “Flatten the Curve” was organized and produced by …

Two weeks ago, Styx founder Dennis DeYoung posted a solo rendition of the band’s 1981 hit “Best of Times” onto YouTube that he recorded in his house. Much to his amazement, it quickly racked up 847,000 views and inspired him to post another song (the band’s 1990 tune “Show Me …

New York City jazz outfit Onyx Collective have unveiled a starry-eyed take on the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart classic, “Manhattan,” which will appear on their tribute to the Rodgers and Hart/Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook, Manhattan Special, out Friday,April 24th, via TMWRK Records. A New York City anthem since it …

While technically the entire month of April this year is 4/20, today marks the actual day that weed enthusiasts worldwide have come to claim as their own, with observances lighting up around the globe. Willie Nelson will host his “Come and Toke It” variety show at 4:20 p.m. CT, featuring …

Randy Newman, via video, discussed his new quarantine love song “Stay Away” on CBS Sunday Morning. The song was borne out of Newman’s assignment to pen a social distancing public service announcement for Los Angeles, but eventually grew into a love song for his wife Gretchen. “I had an idea, …

Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck shared a heavy take on John Lennon‘s “Isolation,” which marks the pair’s debut single as a duo after they spent the past few years working on music together behind the scenes. The tune finds the pair transforming Lennon’s tidy piano rocker into a moody, bluesy …

Soul veteran Don Bryant has released “Is It Over,” the second offering from his forthcoming album You Make Me Feel. The album is a follow-up to Bryant’s triumphant 2017 return-to-form Don’t Give Up on Love, his first record in nearly a half-century. Bryant, 78, co-wrote every song on the new …

Happy 88th birthday to music icon Loretta Lynn, born this day in 1932, in the tiny coal-mining community of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Lynn, who immortalized “Butcher Holler” in her autobiographical 1970 single “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” arrived in Nashville in the early Sixties, appearing on the Grand Ole Opry for the …