An awesome performance by the Run The Jewels who did their first live performance since releasing their latest album 'RTJ4'. Killer Mike, El-P, and DJ Trackstar performed the new album in full, and they were joined virtually by several of the album's guests on the big screen behind them - including Zack de la Rocha, Josh Homme, Mavis Staples, Pharrell, 2 Chainz, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, and Cochemea, and in person by Gangsta Boo and Greg Nice. They did the performance in an empty venue with a full light show.

Apple TV+ has dropped the first trailer for Bruce Springsteen’s 'Letter to You' documentary on the recording of his upcoming album, the first collaboration with his E Street Band since 2014. “I’m in the middle of a 45-year conversation with the men and women I’m surrounded by,” Springsteen says in voiceover - “the years of playing together have created an efficiency in the studio. Ideas tumble around the room, confusion often reigns. And then, suddenly, dynamite. Alright, what can I say? The greatest thrill of my life is standing at that microphone with you guys behind me. Let’s do it”.

Fleetwood Mac singer Mick Fleetwood started a TikTok account and his first video is a recreation of the viral skateboarding video showing TikToker Nathan Apodaca riding a skateboard while drinking juice and lip-synching to Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams'. Apodaca uploaded the post last month, it quickly went viral and now has 22 million plays. Mick Fleetwood's only video already has 3.6 million.

10-year-old drummer phenomenon Nandi Bushell has penned a theme song for her rival-idol Dave Grohl called 'Rock and Grohl, the Epic Battle', following a theme song Grohl wrote for Bushell last month, Louder reports. Sharing her original song on YouTube, Bushell wrote - “Mr Grohl. The song you wrote for me was truly, truly EPIC! You really are LEGENDARY! I wrote a song for you to say THANK YOU! I made up and played all the instrument parts myself, just like you! It’s called ‘ROCK and GROHL, The EPIC Battle’... Whoever wins this round, it’s been an HONOUR to battle you. The Rock Gods of old are happy!".

Billie Eilish shared a music video for 'No Time to Die', her theme song to the new James Bond movie. The black-and-white clip features scenes from the new film, and it was directed by Daniel Kleinman, who has designed every title sequence for the Bond series since 1995.

Fleetwood Mac's 1977 hit song 'Dreams' climbing the charts again after a TikToker Nathan Apodaca went viral on the platform for a video where he's seen chugging a litre of juice while skating around town and lip-syncing to 'Dreams', Billboard reports. Captioned 'Morning vibe', the seconds-long clip currently sits at 3.4 million views on TikTok after being posted only five days ago; Apodaca's Instagram cross-post has an additional 3.1 million views. Apple Music reported 221 percent increase in streams of the song, while Spotify reported an increase of 127 percent and Shazam clocked in with a whopping 1,137 percent increase. Meanwhile, sales of the track have nearly tripled since the weekend. Apodaca himself is seeing increased success in the clip’s wake, as well - he’s received over $10,000 in donations over the last five days; he lives in an RV outside his brother’s home, TMZ reports.

Weird Al Yankovic has teamed with The Gregory Brothers and made an autotuned remix of the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Weird Al takes over as moderator, with Trump and Biden's more memorable lines turned into hooks.

Beastie Boys are sharing their final concert ever, their 2009 headlining performance at Bonnaroo, for free on YouTube all weekend long. They didn't know it then, but it was their last concert - barely a month later, Adam “MCA” Yauch was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer, in 2011 the band released 'Red Hot Sauce Committee Part Two', and a year later Yauch died. High-quality audio and considerably detailed camera shots make the video that more special.

Rockers cover rock songs, jazz musicians play other jazz musicians, whereas in hip-hop it's really hard to find a rapper covering other rapper's song. Music YouTuber Adam Neely tries to explain why.

Video producer and YouTuber Andrew Huang has made an amusing music theory video arguing - with plenty or arguments! - that there's AAA-LOT of D tone in pop music right now. Why is it a supersonic right now? - it just goes well with the others.

Canadian indie-rock musician Rich Aucoin made a simply great video for his new song 'Walls' with a simple idea - he recreated 20 of the most iconic music videos of all time, including Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', Prince's 'When Doves Cry', Jamiroquai's 'Virtual Insanity', Beyonce's 'Single Ladies', Radiohead's 'Just', Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic', Run DMC & Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way' and other. At first, they're separate, but by the end of the video Beyonce ends up with OK Go, Madonna with the Beastie Boys etc.

The last Jeremy Ivey video was a chilling vision of reality, the new one - quite the opposite, a light-hearted and ironic take on the "new normal". He says "these are the good old days no matter how bad they seem. Just remember, life could be a lot harder than it already is". Watch the video below.

Tyrese returns with his most powerful record to date, and his first song in over 5 years - 'Legendary', featuring CeeLo Green. The song depicts an “artist's response" to the unfair deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police officers. It is paired with an equally powerful visual directed by Deon Taylor, who’s seen and been through the worst of the worst coming up in Gary, Indiana. Tyrese strayed from his signature R&B ballads, and got into hip-hop/soul territory, with CeeLo Green adding his signature voice and gospel undertones.

FKA twigs has released the video for 'Sad Day', directed by Hiro Murai; this is his first music video since directing Childish Gambino’s 'This Is America'. In the six-minute video, twigs engages in sword combat with dancer Teake, and her swordsmanship is the result of three years’ training in the art of Wushu under the guidance of Master Wu of the Shaolin Wushu Centre. “Everything I’ve previously done with my body, all the training and dancing, has led to this point” says twigs.

Nike has released a new ad paying tribute to the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, whose 42nd birthday would have been this week. The ad features a spoken word track by Kendrick Lamar which centres on Kobe’s legacy as a star who pushed others to “be better”.

10-year-old Japanese drum prodigy Yoyoka released a drum-cover of Rush classic 'YYZ'. Born in 2009, Yoyoka started playing drums at the age of two, appeared live at the age of four and formed a family band at the age of two. Her first CD was released at the age of six, and she not only plays drums but has written songs, sung and played piano. She has previously covered Rage Against the Machine, Led Zeppelin and Nirvana (Yoyoka's YouTube channel).

Jeremy Ivey co-wrote 'Someone Else’s Problem' with his wife Margo Price. It is a politically charged, haunting folk song, with a simple but strong video dealing with religion, police, abuse, consumerism, and other issues in just a few shots.

Well, this is a surprise - a group of ordinary-looking students of the Cleveland, Ohio School of Rock aka "The Jazz Band Rejects", performed 'Waiting Room' by Fugazi in front of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No disrespect, but this just might be the most passionate performance of the song in years!

Electronic duo Darkstar have shared a simple yet moving tribute to UK venues. The video accompanying their track ‘Blurred' compiles Google Earth footage of music institutions across the UK, reflecting on the ongoing loss of public space and cultural venues.

Beck released space-themed videos to his 2019 album 'Hyperspace', made in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space.com. The 'Hyperspace: A.I. Exploration' visual album incorporates videos from NASA missions and artificial intelligence, with music from the latest Beck album.

NME's columnist put it clear and simple: "Give us escapism; take us out of our misery just like your music does. Transform your front room into a scale facsimile of the bridge of the Nostromo, mash every loose food item into a ceiling high sculpture of Apollo, put psychedelic stardust filters on your next colonoscopy. Just take us anywhere that isn’t here".

Tim and Fred Williams are twenty-one-year-old twins from Gary, Indiana, who make videos of themselves listening to famous songs for the first time, and release those on their YouTube channel TwinsthenewTrend. They've uploaded dozens of songs, mostly rock - Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Johnny Cash - and their most popular one is Phil Collins’s 'In the Air Tonight', with over 4 million views. The New Yorker likes the naivety of the two...

'I Know the End' is the closing song from Phoebe Bridgers' new album 'Punisher', but it sounds, and especially with the new video, it looks more like a transition. The video finds Bridgers in her now-trademark skeleton onesie sunken in a bathtub, running through an empty football stadium, finishing with a kinda strange makeout.

Contemporary classical ensemble s t a r g a z e released video album accompaniment to 'Instruments', an abstract orchestral reimagining of Fugazi's 1993 album 'In on the Kill Taker'. The good-spirited video works as a pandemic lockdown diary, with all the musicians involved filming themselves over the last few months, with footage from all over the world.

African-Australian rapper Sampa the Great released her new video 'Time’s Up', a short song that deals with the way the music industry seeks to exploit Black art without supporting Black artists - “I seen the industry scheme / and it’s a killer”, Sampa says. Directed by Sampa’s longtime collaborator Sanjay De Silva, it culminates with a sequence that features "an impeccably well-timed usage" of the ARIA Award that Sampa won last year.

The BBC Philharmonic has recorded a cover of Oasis‘ ‘She’s Electric’, made from lockdown. In similar, cover news, more than 250 Linkin Park fans from 36 countries recorded a quarantine cover of ‘In The End’. The video was created by YouTube users RocknMob, who organise mass performances of famous rock songs.

Ten-year-old Nandi Bushell performed Audioslave hit 'Cochise' on a guitar Tom Morello has gifted her. She also rocks the drums and bass in the impressive new YouTube clip. Audioslave/Rage Against the Machine guitarist gave her the Fender Soul Power Stratocaster after he saw her play Rage Against the Machine’s 'Guerrilla Radio'.

The Chicks appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform their new protest song 'March, March', from their new album 'Gaslighter'. Texan group also spoke with Colbert about how they decided to lose "Dixie" from their name.

"This is a really odd meter they are starting with. This is complicated" - vocal coach Ken Lavigne said in reaction to 'Pneuma' by Tool, watching it for the first time. Coach was watching and reacting mostly to drummer Danny Carey whom he called "a wizard around all these cauldrons... brewing potion”. At the highpoint of the song he stopped and said "I'm new to Tool...and I feel like I have wasted my life", , whereas actually, he should be happy about living in a time when there's so much great music, including Tool, who are great again.

Massive Attack have released a new EP called 'Eutopia', featuring Algiers, Saul Williams, and Young Fathers, tackling three of the most immportant issues of our time - climate emergency, tax haven extraction and Universal Basic Income. The songs also feature three political speakers: Christiana Figueres, who wrote the UN Paris Climate Agreement; universal basic income theorist Guy Standing; and Gabriel Zucman, the professor behind the “wealth tax” policy in America.