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About seven years ago, stories about “Bob Dylan‘s Rapping Grandson” flooded the internet. Pablo Dylan — the child of Bob’s oldest son, Jesse — was just 15 at the time and he was trying to promote his new mixtape. “My grandfather, I consider him the Jay-Z of his time,” he …

Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon and Dave Matthews Band are among the artists announced to perform at San Diego’s annual outdoor Kaaboo Del Mar Festival. The lineup of the fifth incarnation of the three-day festival also includes Duran Duran, Black Eyed Peas, Sublime with Rome, OneRepublic, Sheryl Crow and …

Few musicians have lived — and died and lived again — quite like Nikki Sixx. In the three-and-a-half decades he spent playing bass in Mötley Crüe and serving as the group’s primary songwriter, he mainlined heroin, indulged any groupie’s whims and helped the band become Top 10 hitmakers. Outside of …

Sharon Van Etten turned up the intensity of her single “Comeback Kid” during her performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday. Backed by her four-piece band and bathed in warm red and yellow lighting, the singer took a more blistering, gritty approach than on the recorded version …

Adam Ant will deliver a full album performance of his 1982 LP Friend or Foe on a North American trek this fall. The month-long, 18-date trek begins September 4th in Milwaukee and concludes October 1st in Miami. At each stop, Ant will run through Friend or Foe – his most …

At Snarky Puppy shows, Michael League never knows what kind of music head will be sitting in the front rows. “There are people in Slayer or Biggie Smalls T-shirts,” he says. “Sometimes it’s folkloric musicians. There are people who were around when Weather Report was doing its thing and see …

Ozuna dropped his brand new track, “Vacía Sin Mí,” with an accompanying video on Thursday. Co-starring Puerto Rican rapper and “Te Boté” collaborator Darell, the song, which translates to “Empty Without Me,” will be featured in Ozuna’s upcoming third album, Nibiru. In the electrifying new clip — devised by Ozuna’s …

Flipper, the noisy punk group that influenced Nirvana and Melvins, will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a run of North American dates this spring and summer. The lineup for the shows will feature founding members guitarist Ted Falconi and drummer Steve DePace with Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow on the …

Philly rapper Tierra Whack has continued to release a new song each week during her self-proclaimed “Whack History Month” with the release of her charming new tune, “Gloria.” It follows the hard-hitting “Clones” and the lighter-treading “Only Child,” which she performed along with “Hungry Hippo” during Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live …

These days, you hear a lot of talk about so-called spiritual jazz, a Sixties and Seventies subgenre that resonates strongly in the work of contemporary standouts like Kamasi Washington and Nubya Garcia. Along with John and Alice Coltrane, one of the patron saints of the unofficial movement is saxophonist Pharoah …