Hit the jump for Wednesday’s collection of music news:
- Chris Stapleton’s “Broken Halos” has now become his first number one song. The album the song appears on, From A Room: Vol. 1, came out last year, but the song reached the top spot on Billboard’s Country Airplay charts just this week.
- A new Johnny Cash tribute album, Johnny Cash: Forever Words, was announced in February. The album will feature contemporary artists putting some of Cash’s poetry to music. The guest artists include Kacey Musgraves, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and, in a posthumous release, Chris Cornell. Yesterday we heard the first song from the album, out April 6, called “I’ll Still Love You” by Elvis Costello.
- The record subscription service, Vinyl Me, Please, is releasing a repressing of the Arctic Monkeys debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not for their April record of the month in anticipation of the band’s as-yet-unannounced sixth record.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt have released a mash-up of songs from their respective Broadway musicals, Hamilton and Dear Evan Hanson, as a fundraiser for the March For Our Lives. The song, “Found/Tonight” combines “The Story of Tonight” and “You Will Be Found.” Philadelphia’s March For Our Lives is taking place in conjunction with the DC march this Saturday, kicking off at Fifth and Market streets at 10 a.m.