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When Amanda Shires first got home from the road in March, she wandered into her barn, lost and confused. “I went from playing in three bands to playing in none,” she says. Shires’ tour had been cut short due to the coronavirus outbreak, and she had driven back to Nashville …

Bruce Springsteen has no shortage of original songs about New Jersey that he could have played near the end of the Jersey 4 Jersey fundraising event on Wednesday night. “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” would have been a touching tribute to his adopted boardwalk town, while “My Hometown” would …

Marianne Faithfull was discharged from a London hospital Wednesday, more than three weeks after the singer tested positive for the coronavirus. “We are really happy to say that Marianne has been discharged from hospital today, 22 days after being admitted suffering from the symptoms of Covid-19. She will continue to …

Queen + Adam Lambert performed a scaled-back quarantine version of “We Are the Champions” in an Instagram video posted Monday on their respective accounts. And they made one simple —yet significant —tweak, changing the titular pronoun from “we” to “you” in a display of solidarity. The clip unfolds in a …

Las Vegas’ Life Is Beautiful Festival will not take place in 2020 due to concerns over COVID-19, organizers announced on Tuesday. The three-day arts and music festival, which hosted more than 175,000 attendees last year, was postponed indefinitely, with tentative plans to return in 2021. “We were more excited than …

“I Contain Multitudes” is Bob Dylan‘s second surprise new song in three weeks, making it seem increasingly likely that the Nobel Prize winner has a new album on the way — which would be his first collection of original songs since 2012’s Tempest. The Walt Whitman-referencing new song is much …

“I know we all lost friends and family members and it’s just a helluva thing to be going through, but I want to send out my best wishes to all y’all and let’s just hang in tough,” says Lucinda Williams, offering words of encouragement near the end of her four-song …

Car Seat Headrest have shared the animated video for their new song “Hollywood,” the latest track off their upcoming LP Making a Door Less Open. “This song is about Hollywood as a place where people go to make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting other people …

Tim Burgess is on Twitter a lot, even when there’s not a global pandemic that’s keeping him and everyone else indoors. The lead vocalist of British alt band the Charlatans spends an inordinate amount of time on the social platform, tweeting dozens of times a day on just about everything …

Update: the full beat battle is now available to watch on YouTube. Over the course of the last month, stars have come up with all kinds of enterprising ways to keep their fans engaged during the rise of the government-mandated quarantine. So when Swizz BeatzandTimbaland faced off by comparing their …