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Multiple women who have accused R. Kelly of sexual, mental and physical abuse speak to Rolling Stone about finding resiliency through community and how the music industry overlooks predatory behavior. The clip debuts one day before Thursday’s premiere of Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. “It doesn’t go away–you always live …

Norah Jones performs a bluesy rendition of one of her “favorite” Ray Charles songs, “What Would I Do Without You,” as a tribute to the late R&B legend in this exclusive clip from Austin City Limits‘ Hall of Fame New Year’s Special. Gary Clark Jr. also staged a rare guitar-less …

U2‘s Bono and the Edge busked on a Dublin street on Christmas Eve as part of an annual all-star fundraising event to aid the Ireland city’s homeless population.The U2 rockers were among a collective of Irish musicians –– including organizer Glen Hansard of the Swell Season, Damien Rice and Imelda …

Travis Scott is guarded, but every so often he opens up to show the La Man behind the La Flame. In Rolling Stone‘s latest installment of “The First Time,” Scott describes the flavor that broke his Jamba Juice virginity, the origin of his rap name and the first CD he …

Elton John was at the absolute pinnacle of his fame when he appeared on the Gilbert O’Sullivan Show in late 1973 to perform his new holiday song “Step Into Christmas.” The clip was placed into the ITV archives after the initial airing and presumed lost forever, but it was recently …

Robyn and Rae Sremmurd are among the performers that will be featured during Red Bull Music Festival in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles installment of the music series – which explores music’s intersection with film, gaming, photography and more – kicks off on February 7th and runs through February 28th …

The defiant centerpiece of Meek Mill‘s new Championships album is “What’s Free,” a bristling collaboration with Jay-Z and Rick Ross. Mill slyly subverts the National Anthem, quoting lines from Francis Scott Key even as he suggests that, for many non-white Americans, the “land of the free” is anything but: “Locked …

Earlier this month, Metallica played a rare acoustic benefit concert in San Francisco to raise money for their nonprofit All Within My Hands Foundation. They played a few hits that translated well to acoustic instruments (“Unforgiven,” “Nothing Else Matters”), reworked some classics to fit the format (“Disposable Heroes”) and attempted …

The Monkees dropped their first-ever Christmas album in early October, and they’ve just released a video for the Andy Partridge-penned tune “Unwrap You At Christmas” to promote it. It shows the group as figures in a comic strip created by illustrator Michael Allred. Old school fans of the group will …

Despite her lack of material the past 25 years — only two albums of all-new work since 1993’s The Red Shoes— Kate Bush has been one of those singers that always seemed to be famous; her singular, operatic voice has zero comparisons but countless imitators. But a year before her …