Check out some music news from this weekend:
- Pitchfork has a little round-up of the musical performances at the Washington DC March for Our Lives on Saturday: Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Common, and Andra Day. They missed this video of Jennifer Hudson and a DC choir singing Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin'” and this video of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt singing “Found/Tonight.”
- Though he didn’t perform, Paul McCartney was at the New York protest, and, in reference to the 1980 killing of John Lennon, said he was marching because one of his best friends was shot. The march went right past the Manhattan location of Lennon’s death, right outside his former apartment.
- Michael Stipe has never released any solo music and we haven’t heard anything from him since REM’s retirement in 2011. This weekend he released a 10-second video of a song called “Future, If Future.”
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- Hers isn’t always exactly my favorite type of country music, but for someone existing in that realm, Kacey Musgraves does make some wonderful music. Her newest album, Golden Hour, comes out this Friday, but is currently streaming in full at NPR’s First Listen.