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Linkin Park announced Friday that the band would live-stream their all-star Chester Bennington tribute concert in Los Angeles.





The sold-out "Linkin Park and Friends Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington" will begin streaming at Linkin Park's YouTube page starting 7:45 PM PST on October 27th, the group revealed Friday.

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Kelly Clarkson, Meaning Of Life

The American Idol winner's Atlantic debut captures the vibe of her live shows, showing off her powerhouse voice and effervescent personality on songs that evoke R&B's golden periods, from the Sixties to the Nineties. "It was essential – at least for me – to make a record that almost sounded like [my live show]," Clarkson told Rolling Stone. "When people come see me live, we've brought horns out, we've got strings out. People don't come for the costume changes!"

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Paul McCartney joined Steven Van Zandt and the Disciples of Soul for a raucous rendition of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" during Van Zandt's concert in London, Saturday November 4th.





McCartney and Van Zandt shared vocal duties, and a microphone, throughout the performance of the classic 1963 single. The former Beatle added a gritty guitar vamp to the brassy full-band arrangement as well, while later he and Disciples of Soul guitarist Marc Ribler traded spitfire blues solos before everyone belted one final chorus.

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Chuck Mosley, the vocalist for the mid-Eighties run of pioneering alt-metal outliers Faith No More, died Thursday at the age of 57. The singer pioneered what would eventually become rap-rock on the band's first hit, 1987's snarky MTV breakthrough "We Care a Lot." He left the band shortly after and did a stint as the singer of Bad Brains in the early Nineties. After embarking on a solo career, he made a handful of onstage guest appearances in the years since Faith No More's 2009 reunion.



"After a long period of sobriety, Charles Henry Mosley III lost his life, on November 9th, 2017, due to the disease of addiction," Mosley's family wrote in a statement. "We’re sharing the manner in which he passed, in the hopes that it might serve as a warning or wake up call or beacon to anyone else struggling to fight for sobriety. He is survived by long-term partner Pip Logan, two daughters, Erica and Sophie and his grandson Wolfgang Logan Mosley. The family will be accepting donations for funeral expenses."

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The guitar Bob Dylan played at the Concert for Bangladesh and during his Rolling Thunder Revue sold at auction Saturday for nearly $400,000, exceeding pre-auction estimations.





An anonymous buyer purchased Dylan's 1963 Martin D-28 acoustic guitar from Heritage Auctions for $396,000, nearly $100,000 more than its expected top bid.

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"There's very few rock & roll bands," Malcolm Young



"There's rock bands, there's sort of metal bands, there's whatever, but there's no rock & roll bands – there's the Stones and us," he chuckled. When asked by the interviewer to explain the difference between rock bands and rock & roll bands, he replied, "Rock bands don't really swing ... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all."




Few rock & rollers have ever understood "the jungle of it all" like Malcolm Young, and fewer still have ever been as single-mindedly devoted to its perpetuation. From 1973, when he formed AC/DC with his younger brother Angus, to 2014, when dementia and other health issues forced his premature retirement, Malcolm never once allowed the band to deviate from its swinging, swaggering, riff-driven course. During Malcolm's tenure, AC/DC's recordings featured three different lead vocalists, three different bassists and five different drummers; and yet, the band's musical aesthetic remained so stubbornly consistent as to make the Ramones look like flighty trend-jumpers by comparison.

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50. 21 Savage, "Bank Account"
49. Haim, "I Want You Back"
48. YFN Lucci feat. PnB Rock, "Everyday We Lit"
47. Willie Nelson, "Delete and Fast Forward"
46. Laura Marling, "Wild Fire"
45. Miley Cyrus, "Malibu"
44. Carly Rae Jepsen, "Cut to the Feeling"
43. Big Thief, "Shark Smile"
42. Kodak Black, "Tunnel Vision"
41. Kamasi Washington, "Truth"
40. Fergie feat. Nicki Minaj, "You Already Know"
39. Dan Auerbach, "Waiting on a Song"
38. Gorillaz feat. Popcaan, "Saturnz Barz"
37. Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie, "In My World"
36. Dvsn, "Mood"
35. Dirty Projectors, "Up in Hudson"
34. Dua Lipa feat. Miguel, "Lost in Your Light"
33. Lil Yachty feat. Diplo, "Forever Young"
32. Margo Price, "Pay Gap"
31. Craig Finn, "God in Chicago"
30. Jidenna, "Bambi"
29. J Balvin and Willy William, "Mi Gente"
28. Charly Bliss, "Glitter"
27. Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean, Migos, "Slide"
26. Tee Grizzley, "First Day Out"
25. Superorganism, "Something For Your M.I.N.D."
24. DJ Khaled feat. Rihanna, Bryson Tiller, "Wild Thoughts"
23. Charli XCX, "Boys"
22. Spoon, "Hot Thoughts"
21. Arcade Fire, "Everything Now"
20. Taylor Swift, "Call It What You Want"
19. Diet Cig, "Sixteen"
18. Beck, "Dear Life"
17. Lil Uzi Vert, "XO Tour Llif3"
16. Julia Michaels, "Uh Huh"
15. Drake, "Passionfruit"
14. LCD Soundsystem, "Call the Police"
13. Ed Sheeran, "Shape of You"
12. Selena Gomez, "Bad Liar"
11. Tove Styrke, "Say My Name"
10. Future, "Mask Off"
9. Lana Del Rey feat. the Weeknd, "Lust for Life"
8. Portugal. The Man, "Feel It Still"
7. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, "Despacito"
6. Migos feat. Lil Uzi Vert, "Bad and Boujee"
5. U2, "Lights of Home"
4. Cardi B, "Bodak Yellow"
3. Kendrick Lamar, "Humble."
2. Lorde, "Homemade Dynamite"

Awesome, right? Lorde had an astounding breakthrough with Melodrama, but "Homemade Dynamite" is her heart-breaking peak, a nervously sexy synth-pop thriller about meeting a kindred spirit at a party. They share a moment of dancing with their shoes off and telling each other their best lies, while that Swedish electro beat sparkles like broken glass. "Homemade Dynamite" got a killer remix featuring Khalid, SZA and Post Malone, but it's Lorde's eccentric whisper that holds the track together, right down to the moment where she simulates the sound of all that dynamite in her heart going off: "Poooof!" She celebrates a moment of dance-floor eye contact as a thrill worth savoring in itself.

1. Harry Styles, "Sign of the Times"

In case anyone out there thought the One Direction star was going to play it safe in his solo move, Harry Styles shut up any doubters with his first solo single. "Sign of the Times" made an instant splash – an eccentric piano ballad stretching to nearly six minutes, aiming for Bowie/Queen levels of glam grandeur, with Styles hitting heavenly high notes as he broods on death and rebirth. "Sign of the Times" just grew in resonance as the year went on. The reckless ambition of the song is only part of what's brilliant about it – the confidence and empathy in his voice just keep surging as the music builds. Styles was the only rock star all year to aim for such a giant sound, with a giant-hearted song to match. A high-risk move for sure – but only this guy could have imagined "Sign of the Times" and then made it real.

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Twenty-six years after Nirvana played an acoustic concert to roughly 20 fans at an Edinburgh pub, audio from that unique December 1st, 1991 performance has surfaced online for the first time.




Nirvana – the gig's "very special guests" who used the not-so-subtle pseudonym "Teen Spirit" – played a handful of songs at Edinburgh's Southern Bar, with Kurt Cobain on acoustic guitar and vocals while drummer Dave Grohl manned the bass; Krist Novoselic was in attendance but didn't perform, the Edinburgh News reported.

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Moby has announced his upcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt, his 15th studio LP.




The new album follows a pair of LPs that Moby recorded with the Void Pacific Choir, 2016's These Systems Are Failing and 2017's controversy-stirring More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse. According to Moby, Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt is a return to the gospel and trip-hop style of his earlier works.

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Illustration by Nigel Buchanan for Rolling StoneAnother politically motivated Rust Belt blond, Paul Newman, once said "a man with no enemies is a man with no character." And few musicians could boast more of either than Eminem, the poison-tongued, potty-mouthed scourge of Lynn Cheney, boy bands, clown posses and eventually – on a string of self-auditing post-rehab albums – himself. But, at 45, he hasn't had a good pop-culture feud in ages, and his pill-popping days of vice are behind him. Eminem has long been pushed to the edge and all his foes are dead. "I only go to meetings court-ordered from a shrink," he jokes on a Revival pick-up line.

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