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This will be his first time performing on the AMA stage.

Tool blew the minds of many a teen through the 90s with some of the trippiest music videos ever made, and their frontman Maynard James Keenan seems to be keeping that trend alive in this new video from his other musical project Puscifer. The song is called The Arsonist, and the clip features Maynard, Ronda Rousey, and a couple of the UFC’s other top female fighters battling a gigantic Godzilla-like Donald Trump monster. The video starts out with Maynard James Keenan challenging Ronda Rousey to a fight, and the stakes are … er … interesting.

Current SME CEO Doug Morris will transition to the role of chairman in April.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Music Man Square in the hometown of “The Music Man” creator Meredith Willson is floundering.

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"Love for Sale: Pop Music in America" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by David Hajdu

“Animation has been a traditionally white male place,” said Disney XD’s Marc Buhaj on the industry’s need to diversify.

NEW YORK (AP) — Following Bob Dylan's win for the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, the singer-songwriter's music has increased by more than 500 percent on Spotify.

Various artists, "The Musical Mojo of Dr. John: Celebrating Mac and His Music" (Concord Records)

Third Man Records, the independent record label founded by "The White Stripes" frontman Jack White, has produced a music-themed coloring book, set to go on sale in the US this weekend. The book, revealed on Instagram, features a fictional record company — dubbed "Manny's Top Tunes" — and explores "how a vinyl record is made," with the product slated to hit shelves at Third Man's Nashville storefront from Saturday, October 15.

Jonny Fritz, "Sweet Creep" (ATO Records)