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Rina Sawayama stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night (May 19), performing her new single “This Hell.” She released the song earlier this week as the lead track to her next album Hold the Girl. Watch her play “This Hell” below. Hold the Girl arrives on September 2, more than two years after her debut SAWAYAMA. Between those albums, she’s covered Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” joined Charli XCX for “Beg for You,” jumped on a Lady Gaga remix, and updated SAWAYAMA’s “Chosen Family” with Elton John. Revisit Pitchfork’s Rising feature “Rina Sawayama on Her Wildly Eclectic and Disarmingly Personal Debut Album.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

Bob Neuwirth—the musician, songwriter, and visual artist arguably best known for his collaborations with Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and John Cale—died of heart failure on Wednesday, The New York Times reports. He was 82 years old. Neuwirth was a singer-songwriter who entered Bob Dylan’s orbit in the early 1960s He became a fixture of Dylan’s inner circle, working as his road manager during the infamous 1965 tour of England documented in D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back. He was later a member of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue band and crew in the mid-’70s. In addition to co-writing Janis Joplin’s Pearl song “Mercedes Benz,” Neuwirth is credited as the person who introduced her to Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee.”  Following his self-titled 1974 album on Asylum Records, Neuwirth ...