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HBO has dropped the trailer for The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, their upcoming documentary about the hit-making brother trio. “There’s nothing else to say about the Bee Gees except they’re fucking awesome,” Justin Timberlake says of the Gibb brothers, Barry, Robin, and Maurice, in the …

Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has partnered with Rolling Stone to launch a new interview series, S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess. The first episode debuts Thursday, October 29th, and features a chat with Democracy Now! host and best-selling author, Amy Goodman. An avowed Goodman fan, Casablancas opens the interview by …

At this point, you could make a compelling film about all the aborted attempts to make a compelling film about Marvin Gaye. In 2008, F. Gary Gray (Friday, Straight Outta Compton) signed on to helm a movie called Marvin. In subsequent years, Cameron Crowe, Jamie Foxx, Scott Rudin and, most …

Harry Styles traverses Italy in the video for his latest single “Golden.” The track opens his sophomore album Fine Line, which was released last December. Directed by Ben and Gabe Turner, the sunny video was filmed along the Amalfi Coast. The sweet visual opens with Styles running through a tunnel, …

Sigur Rós have announced the release of their orchestral album, Odin’s Raven Magic. The 70-minute piece is a collaboration with fellow Icelandic artists Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Steindór Andersen. Featuring Schola Cantorum of Reykjavík and L’Orchestre des Laureats du Conservatoire National de Paris, it arrives on December 4th on Krunk …

The Buzzcocks will reissue the 12 singles the pioneering punk band released for United Artists between 1977 and 1980 in a new 7-inch vinyl box set. Each single in the 12-record set — due out January 15th, 2021 via Domino — is remastered from the tracks’ original tapes and recreates …

Julien Baker stops herself to apologize. “I don’t know why I’m now telling you the footnotes of my thesis,” she says, with a typical dose of self-consciousness. It makes perfect sense that Baker has slipped into full academic mode, talking about jazz and “the subjectivities of language” — because, lately, …

“Sometimes you gotta trust yourself,” Tom Petty sings on “California,” one of the many alternative tracks that never made the original release of Petty’s 1994 masterpiece Wildflowers. “California” is no new revelation: it’s one of several songs from the Wildflowers sessions that, strangely enough, would appear two years later on …

Gorillaz will launch a new four-part Apple Music show, Song Machine Radio, to support their upcoming collection, Strange Timez, out October 23rd. The first episode will air October 19th at 5 p.m. ET, the second on November 6th at 3 p.m. ET, the third on November 23rd at 2 p.m. …

Rapper Common, Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh, and the Southern California band Asiatica are among the artists who’ve been added to AfroPunk’s 2020 virtual festival, Planet Afropunk, taking place October 23rd through 25th. The new additions to the lineup also include the North Carolina experimental outfit Black Haüs, Kenyan rapper MC …