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Willie Nelson returned to the stage Saturday to take part in the Poor People’s Campaign march for voting rights outside the Texas Capitol in Austin. Beto O’Rourke shared video of Nelson’s performance on social media; the gig marked Nelson’s first in-person and public concert outside of his Luck, Texas ranch …

The world is mourning today for the late, great Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, who died Tuesday. He was a beer drinker, hell-raiser, sharp-dressed broom duster, and bassist in the same trio for more than 50 years. But Dusty was more than just a legendary bluesman — he and ZZ …

Gallant surveys the wreckage of a relationship in “Dynamite,” a smooth piano ballad with a casually serrated chorus: “If we lost our minds, blew up like dynamite/Wouldn’t that be nice?” The track appeared in March on the R&B singer’s Neptune EP. Neptune featured several duets — including “Third Eye Blind” with Arin Ray …

New Orleans hip-hop duo Suicideboys have announced the return of their Grey Day tour, which boasts a stacked lineup that includes Turnstile, Slowthai, Chief Keef, and more. Ten different artists will appear during the tour on select dates, with additional performers including Night Lovell, Germ, Ramirez, Shakewell, Yung Gravy, and …

President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen will release a joint book, Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., on October 26th globally via Higher Ground/Penguin Random House. The tome is described as “a collection of candid, intimate, and entertaining conversations,” which beganin Spotify’s co-produced podcast of the same name. Published in an …

Daddy Yankee, Nicky Jam, and Karol G will headline Billboard Latin Music Week, which will run from September 20th to September 24th at Miami’s Faena Forum. The theme of this year’s gathering, the biggest in the Latin music industry, is “The Beat of Latin Music,” and several live performances and …

Green Day are going to spend the next few months playing baseball stadiums on the Hella Mega tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy. And, on Tuesday night, they offered 1,800 lucky fans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a preview of what’s to come by playing a last-minute warmup show at Cain’s …

Reggaeton isn’t all that old in the grand scheme of things, yet there’s an industry-wide yearning for the halcyon days of early perreo, which was fostered in Puerto Rico’s Black communities in the Nineties and 2000s. Artists from Bad Bunny to Rauw Alejandro have offered up tributes to the sounds …

Updated (7/19): Brian O’Connell, Live Nation’s president of country touring, and the Faster Horses country music festival have issued a statement in response to four fatalities at last weekend’s concerts at Michigan International Speedway. “All of us in the Faster Horses Festival Family are deeply saddened by the tragic losses …

Kanye West, Dua Lipa, Pusha T, and Future are among the artists that will feature on Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album Faith, out at midnight Friday. The rapper’s manager Steven Victor revealed the entire 21-song tracklist Thursday, hours before Faith’s release, with Pharrell Williams, 21 Savage, Rick Ross, the-Dream, Migos’ …