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In "Me and the Major," a scintillating blues harp soundtracks a pointless circular disagreement with an officious Boomer as to whether the Queen's army is where one goes to learn to be a man. Where does one go to learn to be a man? Or to learn anything, for that matter? The sins of the father are cheerfully sloughed off on the son.

In 2004, the Brazilian musician Seu Jorge recorded a series of Portuguese covers of David Bowie songs for Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The next year, he released a full album of 13 Bowie classics, and in 2016-2017, he even took the songs on tour. Now, in 2026, to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's passing, Jorge returns with the performance above.

"I've always believed that music is about connection and emotional truth. What interested me here was the idea of using my voice and new tools in service of expression, not instead of it. This project respects the artist's voice, the artist's choices, and the artist's ownership. I grew up watching my parents create wonderful dreams that were owned by other people. ElevenLabs makes it possible for anyone to be a creator and owner. That matters."

"Humphrey - that's my guy," Batson says of the black-and-brown dachshund, whom he introduced to his audience onstage in 2024. His mom, Salina, recalls the scene: "It was his first headline show, in Tuscaloosa, and he'd just gotten Humphrey as a surprise from his sister. Maddox held him up like the beginning of 'The Lion King.'" The dog has since become a fan favorite, Batson notes, adding that his team is designing a plush Humphrey toy to offer at the merch booth. "We're gonna sell so many."

In an audacious action starting to attract media attention, last month a group of piracy actors called Anna's Archive copied about 86 million music files from Spotify. The intention was to release the hoard on the BitTorrent file-sharing platform. All three of the major labels (UMG, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group), along with Spotify, launched the unsurprising lawsuit in September. The presiding judge, Jed . Rakoff, issued an injunction (HERE).

"I would love to heal that in the city. But I would also want people to be receptive," he said.

They should have known right off the bat that they had something special, as the opening night had Dr. John, Stevie Wonder and Johnny Winter performing to the likes of Mick Jagger and Carly Simon in the audience. Over the years, the 400-person capacity club became the place to be to see one's favorite artist up close or catch an up-and-coming unknown.

Before the holiday, we were talking a lot about A.I. music. And then when I was listening to the new Bruno Mars song, all I could think about was A.I. It's called I Just Might. It is a rich and lustrous homage to the soul pop of the early 1970s. Obviously, you're thinking about the Jackson 5. It's gloss. It's note-perfect.

Thrash legends Exodus are fresh off announcing their opening slot on Sepultura's "final" North American tour (alongside Biohazard and Tribal Gaze), and now they've announced a new album, Goliath, due March 20 via Napalm Records ( pre-order). It reunites them with lead vocalist Rob Dukes, who fronted Exodus between 2005 and 2014, and it features contributions from Hypocrisy/Pain's Peter Tägtgren and violinist Katie Jacoby. It was self-produced by the band, and mixed and mastered by Mark Lewis.

Since it was announced that Bad Bunny would perform at the halftime show, the Super Bowl has sparked conversation beyond the field and, on Monday, that debate intensified further. On social media, the event has been labeled an anti-Trump spectacle following the NFL's announcement that Green Day will serve as the opening act on February 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter on Tuesday (20 January), 33-year-old "Broken" singer Kim Petras stated that she had officially asked to be dropped by her record label Republic Records, a brand owned by Universal Music. "I'm tired of having no control over my own life or career. I want to continue to self fund and self curate my own music. This is why I have formally requested to be dropped by @RepublicRecords," Petras wrote.

"I don't like wasting my bandmates' time, and always felt guilty when I'd give them a song, ask them to do something, then completely change the song and ask them to do it again. Now I can get the skeleton of a song together first - just a couple of elements, the key feeling, really as little as possible - before bringing it to the band and running from there."

While the Justin Biebers and Lana Del Reys of the world have been in the thrall of "Hypepriest" Judah Smith, the underground set have been seeking wisdom from their own spiritual guide: Sister Irene O'Connor, a Franciscan nun from Australia whose 1973 album Fire of God's Love has been sampled by mainstream-y tastemakers like James Blake and Vegyn, was featured in Killing Eve, and become an unexpected grail for crate-diggers, with original vinyl copies selling for upwards of $500 on Discogs.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, alleges she woke up to find the singer raping her in London in March 2015. Davidson says he did not sleep in the same bed as her as there was "no spark". Davidson of Finchley, north London, is also accused of attempted rape and sexual assault of a tourist in Thailand in December 2019. He denies all the charges. In cross-examination at Wood Green Crown Court on Wednesday, prosecution barrister Richard Hearnden told Davidson "a man can penetrate a woman" while she is asleep and asked whether he did this to the alleged victim. Davidson denied it, and also denied using the collar, saying he did not even take it out of its box.

The apartment where the Austrian composer Franz Schubert died, the residence of Blue Danube writer Johann Strauss, as well as the house where Joseph Haydn lived are to be closed temporarily owing to cost-saving measures, the director of Vienna's museums announced on Wednesday. The closures are part of broader austerity measures that will also see the price of public transport in the Austrian capital rise by almost 30% for some tickets. We all have to economise, said Matti Bunzl, the head of public body the Wien Museum that oversees several historical sites in the Austrian capital.