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Rage Against the Machine detail the grim American history behind their 1991 anthem “Killing in the Name” in a new mini-documentary. The 15-minute film Killing in Thy Name, a collaboration with the arts collective the Ummah Chroma, features a teacher educating a small group of students about “the fiction known as whiteness” as well as the United States’ history of racial and social oppression. The mini-doc also features quotations from historians like Howard Zinn and live footage of Rage Against the Machine performing the track, which bizarrely became a pro-Trump...

Happy birthday to Ronnie Milsap! The singer was born on Jan. 16, 1943, in Robbinsville, N.C.While Milsap has led an extraordinary life, his humble beginnings were anything but promising. Almost completely blind since birth due to a congenital disorder, Milsap was abandoned by his biological mother and raised by his grandparents until the age of five, when he went to the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C.Milsap's musical gifts were noticed when he was still a child, and he was learning to play the piano at an...

Flo Milli is on an impressive run right now, chewing up everything in her path and spitting it back with a double-time bar and an eye roll. The Alabama rapper’s debut mixtape, Ho, Why Is You Here?, was one of last year’s most fun releases in any genre, giving everything from a classic SWV ballad to Snoop Dogg’s immortal opening verse from “Gin & Juice” the Flo Milli makeover. Her quick, funny lyrics make her a natural for the TikTok era, but she also has a smart-alecky star quality that’s appealing to fans...

Morgan Wallen celebrated his new album, Dangerous, with a performance at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Tuesday night (Jan. 12). The full show is now available for fans to watch and relive.Wallen's 75-minute set opened with "Sand in My Boots," "Somebody's Problem" and other cuts from the 30-song double album, released on Jan. 8. The No. 1 and platinum-certified single "More Than My Hometown," the Top 25 single "7 Summers" and Wallen's acclaimed cover of Jason Isbell's "Cover Me Up" were also included in the setlist.Wallen's show even included a special guest:...

Duke Bootee, the pioneering rapper who co-wrote and appeared on Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s classic “The Message” — Number One on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time — died Wednesday at the age of 69. Born Edward Fletcher, the rapper died at his home in Savannah, Georgia. The cause was end-stage congestive heart failure, his wife, Rosita, confirmed to Rolling Stone. Fletcher served as a member of Sugar Hill Records’ house band alongside fellow New Jersey funk veterans like bassist Doug Wimbish,...

They're three albums and a heap of trophies and awards nominations into their career now, but five years ago, Brothers Osborne were country up-and-comers releasing their debut album. The sibling duo's first full-length record, Pawn Shop, debuted on Jan. 15, 2016.Deale, Md., natives John and TJ Osborne were four singles deep into their career by the time they released Pawn Shop. Three of those songs, "Rum" (a gold-certified Top 30 single), "Stay a Little Longer" (platinum-certified, went to No. 2) and "21 Summer" (it peaked at No. 24), appear on the project,...

Juice WRLD and Young Thug reunite in the new “Bad Boy” video. According to a statement, the Cole Bennett-directed, Lyrical Lemonade-produced visual marks the final official music video Juice WRLD filmed before he died in December 2019. In the new visual for the Pierre B’ourne produced track, the rappers reference 1995 action film, Bad Boys, where Martin Lawrence and Will Smith portray narcotics detectives. In the music video, the pair cruise the streets and later meet up with a group of people whose identities are obscured with face paint. “Will...

Willie Nelson is among the many Americans who have received their first round of vaccination against COVID-19. While getting vaccinated, the 87-year-old country music legend posed for several pictures that Family Hospital Systems posted to Facebook on Wednesday (Jan. 13), encouraging the public, "Getting your COVID vaccine is Willie cool!"The pictures below show Nelson receiving his vaccination while sitting in a car at a drive-in site. The iconic singer-songwriter and guitarist gets a shot in the upper part of his left arm in one image, and he flashes the camera...

English singer-songwriter Passenger has shared a new mix of his track, “Sword From the Stone,” co-produced by Ed Sheeran. Sheeran and Joe Rubel helmed the so-called “Gingerbread Mix,” in which they transform the airy original with some extra punch in the piano, shuffle in the drums and other atmospheric touches that lend the song a pop sheen without sacrificing any feeling from the original. “Sword and the Stone” appears on Passenger’s new album, Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted, which arrived January 8th. A version of the album was...

The Eagles have some of the highest songwriting standards of any mainstream musical group of the popular era, and they have collaborated with a slate of the top songwriters in the world. Their co-writers include Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Jack Tempchin ... and, somewhat incredibly, Patti Davis, Ronald and Nancy Reagan's daughter.Davis was romantically involved with Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon from 1974 until 1975, according to Eagles Online Central. The couple were living together, and Leadon heard Davis tinkering with the song one day, He helped her finish it,...

CJ Camerieri of yMusic and Sufjan Stevens have teamed up for new single, “Song of Trouble.” The track appears on upcoming LP CARM, Camerieri’s solo debut album that’s named after the moniker he records under. Cowritten and arranged by CARM and Stevens, the single is ushered in with French horns and trumpets, which buoy Stevens’ lyrics that grapple with trouble and implore for an end to it  — a sentiment made for these times. “Struggle, focus on the evidence/Struggle, so everything was made for this,” Stevens sings. “Struggle, rise above...

Garth Brooks is among the slate of artists who have been chosen to receive the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021.The Kennedy Center announced Brooks as one of the recipients of the 43rd Kennedy Center Honors on Wednesday (Jan. 13). He'll be honored in a ceremony that's been delayed until May alongside a slate of fellow honorees from across the spectrum of the arts, including artist, choreographer and actress Debbie Allen, singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez, violinist Midori and actor Dick Van Dyke.“The Kennedy Center Honors serves as a moment to...

Diane Warren is such a prolific — and relentless  —  songwriter that she was right in the middle of working on a new composition when she paused to join us for the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Warren, who has her first solo album, Diane Warren: The Cave Sessions Vol. 1, due later this year (with lead vocals from Darius Rucker, Celine Dion, John Legend, Mary J. Blige, and more), joined host Brian Hiatt to tell wild stories from more than three decades of hit-making. She...

Loretta Lynn remembered her late husband, Oliver Lynn Jr. (also known as "Doolittle"), on social media recently, in honor of what would have been the couple's 73rd anniversary.She also included a video clip of herself performing her song "I Can't Hear the Music," which is featured on her 2000 studio album Still Country."Today would be our 73rd anniversary. I can't believe it's been that long," Lynn writes in the caption of her post. "We fought hard and we loved hard. He was my biggest fan and the real force behind my career. He's the...