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Everybody who’s seen Slayer live has a tale to tell. Some are like war stories: There’s the time fans ripped the seats out of New York City’s Felt Forum, lit them on fire and threw them at the stage. And the Denver concert where the audience got so manic that …

It’s about to be the Charlie Daniels Band’s last song at the Saturday night country music show celebrating the National Rifle Association in Dallas, Texas, where the NRA is staging its annual convention. The audience is anxiously wondering if he’ll play “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” But before that …

While Smashing Pumpkins are set to embark on their semi-reunion tour in two months, Billy Corgan visited The Late Late Showin support of his 2017 solo LP Ogilala with an intimate rendition of that album’s “Archer.” The performance kept with the stripped-down tone of Ogilala, as that album’s tracks featured …

UPDATE: Rae Sremmurd have released their third studio album, SR3MM,alongside the duo’s solo albums,Jxmtroand Swaecation. Stream all three below. ••• Rae Sremmurd have unveiled the track lists for their triple album, which will be released on Friday. The duo’s third studio album, SR3MM, comes packaged with solo efforts. Slim Jxmmi’s …

Bob Dylan revealed that he has launched his own signature line of whiskeys called Heaven’s Door. The legendary singer-songwriter teamed with one of the original co-founders of the bourbon maker Angel’s Envy to create a trio of small batch whiskeys: A straight rye, a double barrel whiskey and a Tennessee …

Janelle Monáe wasn’t made for these times – no wonder she’s always got her eye on the future. From an early age, she’s been a sci-fi/fantasy fan, grooving on The Twilight Zone and Star Wars as a kid. Yet for the 32-year-old musician and actress those genres have never been …

Kacey Musgraves joined global music icon Elton John for an episode of his Apple Music Beats 1 radio show Elton John’s Rocket Hour, where the theme, show after show, continues to be “music you know, music you don’t know, and music you should know.” During their conversation, the pair discussed …

When former Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls speaks with Rolling Stone for our Last Word interview series, he’s a bit nervous. “You’re not talking to people who are dying, are you?” he asks in his famously thick English accent. “I mean is that the idea of ‘The Last Words’? It’s …

Bono was awarded the inaugural George W. Bush Medal for Distinguished Leadership Thursday, with the former president honoring the U2 singer for his work in combatting the HIV/AIDS crisis and poverty in Africa. In 2002, during a visit to the White House, Bono lobbied the president to lend financial support …

Multi-award-winning guitarist, producer, songwriter and studio owner Randy Scruggs died Tuesday, April 17th, following a brief illness, according to Music Row. He was 64. A four-time Grammy winner who earned trophies for his instrumental work from 1989 to 2001, Scruggs was named CMA Musician of the Year in 1999, 2003 …