Courtney Barnett joined Wilco onstage for a “karaoke” performance of “Handshake Drugs” at the band’s Solid Sound Festival this weekend. The annual festival, which takes place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, featured a set on Friday called “Wilco Karaoke,” where other artists and fans could sing Wilco songs …
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Liam Gallagher urges fans to question authority on his heavy new song “The River.” Over a dark guitar drone and distant drum thump, the former Oasis frontman belts, “Don’t believe celebrities/The money-sucking MPs, the device in your hands.” On the chorus, he proclaims, “Change comes when the water falls/I’ve been …
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YG released the black-and-white video for “Hard Bottoms & White Socks” on Monday, featuring the rapper performing onstage with a piano and vintage microphone in front of a star-studded audience. Big Boi, Kamaiyah, Machine Gun Kelly and more were among the familiar faces in the head-bobbing crowd, which gave YG …
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Hollywood Vampires may be a supergroup, but their self-titled 2015 debut album was essentially a souped-up showcase for frontman Alice Cooper. Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Johnny Depp, and the band provided a hard-rocking foundation for Cooper to pay tribute to what he called his “dead, drunk friends” with covers of the …
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In March 1971, the Allman Brothers Band famously set up shop at the Fillmore East in New York City and recorded what would become one of the most acclaimed live albums of all-time, At Fillmore East. Two months prior, the band was tuning up for those famed gigs at the …
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O n a nondescript, cactus-lined street in Sherman Oaks, California, it’s hard to miss the only house with a unicorn-drawn-carriage and a custom BMW painted like a rainbow race car on its curb. Inside the house, singer, actress, and YouTube superstar JoJo Siwa is covered in flour, sprinkles, and eggs, …
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Lana Del Rey has previewed her upcoming album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, with a snippet of the title track. The singer posted a video clip of her lip-syncing the track on Instagram, writing, “This is so much my favorite for so many reasons.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BywLYMmHWJ4/ The song was produced by Jack Antonoff, …
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Midland show off a different side of themselves in the atmospheric new song “Put the Hurt on Me,” the latest offering from their upcoming second album Let It Roll. Co-produced by Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne and Dann Huff, Let It Roll will be released August 23rd. Midland’s members Mark Wystrach, …
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Chris Shiflett is no stranger to big stages. As guitarist for the Foo Fighters, Shiflett has played the world’s largest venues and shared bills with some of rock & roll’s finest acts. On a Friday evening in Nashville in mid-May, though, he’s preparing to step out onto a stage that …
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One night in December 1958, Ray Charles and his band were scheduled to play a four-hour set at a Pittsburgh dance hall. At the time, this was a regular gig for the singer-pianist, a promising Atlantic-signed artist who had broken through with his 1954 single “I Got a Woman.” Charles …
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