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Groundbreaking group was considered a pillar of the Latin rock genre, counting performers including J Balvin and Bad Bunny among its fans Horacio Eduardo “Marciano” Cantero, the songwriter and frontman for Argentinian rock band Enanitos Verdes, died this afternoon in a hospital in his hometown of Mendoza. He was 62. The singer had recently undergone surgery to remove one of his kidneys and part of his spleen.  The group is among one of the most successful Latin American rock outfits, with a career that spanned four decades. Their classics include...

Tyler Childers is back with an ambitious and unique new project. On Sept. 30, the celebrated singer-songwriter will release Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?, a brand new album featuring eight new songs presented in three parts.These three chapters — titled Hallelujah, Jubilee and Joyful Noise — supply three different sonic interpretations of Childers' latest collection of tracks. The Hallelujah segment features a more organic, stripped down style of production formed during a two-day live recording session at guitarist James Barker's home studio. For Jubilee, Childers supplies a more layered sound featuring the...

12-year-old phenomenon and her brother Thomas use the power of rock to vanquish all evil in new clip Nandi Bushell and her bandmate/brother Thomas will guest star in an upcoming episode of Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go!. In an exclusive clip, the hard-hitting drummer and singer faces off with none other than the Joker, using her musical skill to take him down. The 12-year-old phenomenon effused about the show and her appearance in a statement. “Teen Titans Go! has always been my favorite cartoon!” Bushell told Rolling Stone. “I love...

Thirty-six seconds into the trailer for FOX's new, scripted country music drama Monarch finds Trace Adkins staring down the barrel of a rifle. He's just stepped out of a beater of pickup truck that's beneath his character's status on the show, but in line with his pragmatism.Viewers don't hear the crunch of gravel beneath his heavy boots — a haunting cover of "Ring of Fire" is the soundtrack here — as he advances across a headlight-lit patch of dry land no bigger than a suburban living room. Somehow, you feel it."A Roman never forgets...

Chicago, IL — Settling sexual misconduct civil lawsuits became the “cost of doing business,” Derrel McDavid, R. Kelly’s former business manager and co-defendant in the disgraced singer’s federal child pornography trial at Dirksen U.S Courthouse, testified on Wednesday. The CPA-turned-business-manager for R. Kelly began working with the singer in the early Nineties. During McDavid’s time on the stand — he’s the only defendant to do so in the trial — he and one of his attorneys Beau Brindley detailed how McDavid grew to dismiss claims of sexual impropriety as “money...

Michelle Branch returns in September with her fourth solo album, The Trouble With Fever, a pandemic-era project that she recorded and co-produced with Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney — who also happens to be her soon-to-be-ex-husband.Branch filed to end her three-year marriage on Aug. 12, citing irreconcilable differences as the split, though hours before announcing the couple's breakup, she posted a since-deleted tweet accusing Carney of infidelity. And although it's natural for fans to parse the lyrics of her upcoming musical collection for cues about Branch's relationship and divorce, the...

#SpitGate Who? New featurette arrives totally inconspicuously in the midst of the wild Don't Worry Darling press tour Harry Styles has picked quite a moment to drop a new behind-the-scenes look at the music video for his Harry’s House track “Late Night Talking.” The pop star/aspiring actor is, of course, smack in the middle of one of the wildest movie press tours the Hollywood gods have ever gifted us, mere mortals. But surely that has nothing to do with the unexpected release of this “featurette” — a term used very...

Thomas Rhett is picking up where he left off after taking a 10-day break from his Bring the Bar to Your Tour for some doctor-mandated vocal rest.Rhett shared the good news with fans on social media, also providing a little bit more information about the vocal cord irritation that forced him to cancel a San Diego tour stop on Aug. 27 just hours before the show."The doctors over at Vanderbilt put me on vocal rest. My cords were pretty daggum swollen and inflamed," the singer explains in a video message he...

Guided by Voices are diving into the archives for their next release, Scalping the Guru, which features tracks from four EPs the prolific indie rock band released in 1993 and 1994. The new album arrives on Oct. 28 via GBV Inc. Robert Pollard selected the track list and sequenced the new project so that it plays like a cohesive album. The songs were taken from 1993’s Static Airplane Jive (City Slang), 1994’s Get Out of My Stations (Siltbreeze), Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (Engine Records), and Clown Prince of the Menthol...

Kameron Marlowe tells his life story in his sprawling, 16-track debut album, We Were Cowboys, which arrived on Aug. 26.Authenticity is a common buzzword for a country project, especially a debut album, which serves as an artist's first introduction to his or her fanbase. But Marlowe sets his sights on rigorous, personal truth-telling in every element of We Were Cowboys, from the fact that he's a co-writer on over half its songs to his commitment to making sure the stories he tells are powerful, vibrant and true, even — in...

'Sellin' Dreams' "I was different coming out of Detroit for sure but knew i had the whole city on my back," rapper says of breakout 2012 mixtape Big Sean celebrated the 10th anniversary of his breakout mixtape Detroit Monday by uploading the expanded collection onto streaming services for the first time, as well as dropping the long-unreleased song “More Thoughts.” The rapper first teased “More Thoughts” on social media back in 2019 before finally unveiling the complete track on the exact 10th anniversary of Detroit’s release on Sept. 4, 2012:...

It's been two decades since Kelly Clarkson's life-changing American Idol victory, and she's marking the occasion with gratitude and an emotional message of hope and love for everyone who supported her during her Idol years.On social media, the singer shared a lengthy message reflecting on the ways in which Idol jump-started her career and continues to impact her to this day."That moment was the door that opened up so much access and opportunity, and creative partnerships that I will be grateful for all of my days," Clarkson writes."The family and friendships...

Wes Freed, the visual artist whose surreal Southern-gothic images of shadowy figures, ominous owls, and black flamingos adorned album covers by Drive-By Truckers, has died at 58. Freed was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in January and a GoFundMe campaign was underway to help pay for his treatment. The band’s publicist confirmed Freed’s death to Rolling Stone. The Richmond, Virginia-based Freed, who attended art school at Virginia Commonwealth University, began collaborating with Drive-By Truckers on 2001’s Southern Rock Opera, the group’s ambitious double album inspired by the 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane...

Alan Jackson and his wife Denise are preparing to welcome a new son-in-law into the family. Their oldest daughter, 32-year-old Mattie Jackson Selecman, got engaged to her boyfriend Connor Smith during a recent birthday trip to Palm Beach, Fla."Came down for a beach week to celebrate my sweet man's 30th birthday. Didn't know we'd end up celebrating choosing the rest of our lives together!" Selecman wrote on social media, along with a carousel documenting the vacation, proposal and ring."Feeling overwhelmingly thankful, excited and thrilled for this kind-of-surprise but so-fervently-prayed for...