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A$AP Rocky will lead the A$AP Mob across North America this fall on the hip-hop collective's Too Cozy Tour. The 20-date trek begins September 23rd at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts and wraps November 3rd at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado.



Along with Rocky, the A$AP Mob lineup features A$AP Ferg, A$AP Twelvyy, A$AP Nast and A$AP Ant. While Rocky, Twelvyy, Nast and Ant will appear at every show, Ferg will be absent from several dates including gigs in Detroit, Minneapolis, and Seattle. Playboi Carti will also serve as support on select dates, while Key! and DJ duo Cozy Boys will open throughout.

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Foo Fighters recruited Paul McCartney to play drums on one track from their upcoming ninth LP, Concrete and Gold. In a new interview with ET Canada, in which Dave Grohl called the Beatle "the most wonderful guy in the world," the band detailed how quickly the collaboration came together.




"He hadn't even heard of the song," said an unspecified member of the sextet. "He comes in and Dave picked up an acoustic and showed him real quick. He sat on his special drum set that his tech set up for him. I sat there with a drumstick conducting. He did two takes."

McCartney previously collaborated with Grohl and two other surviving members of Nirvana (bassist Krist Novoselic and current Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear) on "Cut Me Some Slack," an original song recorded for Grohl's 2013 film, Sound City.

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Fifth Harmony offered another taste of their self-titled album with the confident, hip-hop inflected "Angel." Their 2017 LP will be the group's first as a quartet following Camila Cabello's departure from the group late last year.



Former member Cabello is currently plotting the release of her debut solo album, The Hurting The Healing The Loving, on September 22nd. She has led up to the album's release with several new tracks, most recently teaming up with Young Thug for "Havana" and Migos' Quavo on "OMG."

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This iconic pairing is full of inspired jams: Swamp Dogg's 1970 "Total Destruction to Your Mind" morphs from a Sly Stone workout into a Funkadelic guitar display, and Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" gains heavy-metal bulk. But while Carlos Santana's guitar shines – Ernie Isley's, too – 76-year-old Ron is the lodestar, donning a falsetto smoking jacket for the Eddie Kendricks proto-disco "Body Talk," and investing Bacharach-David's corny "What the World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love" with fresh gravitas.

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The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney and singer-songwriter Michelle Branch covered America's 1971 soft-rock hit "A Horse With No Name" for the upcoming BoJack Horseman soundtrack, out digitally September 8th via Lakeshore.




The duo reimagined the breezy track, layering percussion and washes of tremolo guitar over the signature acoustic guitar pattern and chorus vocal harmonies.

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Dave Grohl revealed that Justin Timberlake is the long-hyped mystery "pop star" collaborator*featured on the Foo Fighters' upcoming ninth LP, Concrete and Gold.





Grohl detailed this unexpected collision of hard-rock and mainstream pop in Rolling Stone's new, in-depth*cover profile, noting that Timberlake often hung out with the band during downtime between their respective recording sessions at L.A.'s EastWest studios.

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Blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus released a new song, "Not Every Dog Goes to Heaven," for his charity album Dog Songs. Album proceeds will go to the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) for dogs affected by Hurricane Harvey.



"Last week I went into the studio with John Feldmann and we bashed out the guitars, bass, and vocals in a morning," he continued. "Travis came in that afternoon and absolutely destroyed the drums. It was all finished in a matter of 3-4 hours. In a matter of days it went from an idea in the back of my head to a song on an album out in the world. It's a fun, energetic track that I'm proud to have included on the album, and it's for a great cause."

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Andrew W.K. will release his first studio album in nine years on March 2nd, 2018 via Sony.



"I'm going for the sound of pure, unadulterated power," the musician/motivational speaker/longtime party champion said in a statement. "Every emotion, every thought, every experience, every sensation, every fear, every joy, every clarity, every confusion, every up, every down… all extruded and concentrated into one thick syrup of super life-force feeling, and then psychically amplified by the celebratory spirit of glorious partying."
The label has yet to announce a title or track list for the album, which follows two experimental projects from 2009: 55 Cadillac, a set of improvisational piano tracks, and covers set Gundam Rock, featuring reworked material from the Japanese anime series Gundam.

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Tim Heidecker, the comedian turned musician, joined violinist Andrew Bird for a Facebook Live broadcast of the latter's Live From the Great Room series, where they discussed the relationship between music and comedy. They also discussed Heidecker's history in music, since he released his debut album, In Glendale, last year.




Pitchfork reports that during the hour-long broadcast, they performed In Glendale's "Central Air," Bird's "Fiery Crash," Heidecker's Our First 100 Dayscontribution "Trump Talkin' Nukes" and Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee," as well as a couple of new songs.

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On new Wu-Tang Clan-related song "Lesson Learn'd," producer Mathematics disses Martin Shkreli, the infamous "Pharma bro" who reportedly paid $2 million for a copy of the group's one-of-a-kind LP, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (before selling it on eBay), and exchanged widely publicized barbs with Ghostface Killah. "My price hikin' like the pills Martin Shkreli sells," Mathematics boasts on the cut, alluding to the former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO's widely derided move to raise the cost of antiparasitic drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent.




Redman and Wu's Inspectah Deck join on the low-key track, alternating verses over cinematic string samples and a thudding beat. Redman sneaks in some hilarious lines, including, "Never fell off, look in the mirror/ When I drop somethin', you like Martin – all ears."

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