The Museum of London has announced a new exhibition centered on The Clash. Titled “The Clash: London Calling,” the exhibit will feature more than 100 personal items from the band’s archive, including some that are previously unseen. These include bassist Paul Simonon’s Fender guitar, which he destroyed in 1979 for …
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UPDATE:Khalid‘s benefit concert will take place on September 1st at Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas. Benefitting El Paso Shooting Victims’ Fund and the El Paso Community Foundation, tickets for the show go on sale on Wednesday (August 14th) via Live Nation. Donations for the cause can also be …
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Lana Del Rey has released a heartbreaking song to end what has been a uniquely heinous week in the ever-deepening national horror show. “Looking for America” is about what its title suggests, the terrifying search to find a place in our country, where you can feel safe from violence, free …
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Alf Clausen, the longtime composer for The Simpsons who was fired from the show in 2017, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Fox and the show, claiming he was dismissed because of his age, Variety reports. Clausen joined The Simpsons during its second season and worked on the show for …
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Drake claimed the top spot on Rolling Stone‘s inaugural Artists 500 chart, notching a whopping 109.6 million streams during the week of June 21st through June 27th. Drake ruled the ranking thanks to the success of his first two new songs of 2019, “Money in the Grave” and “Omertà,” which …
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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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A young songwriter “introduces” the world to the Beatles in Danny Boyle’s upcoming film Yesterday. We have an exclusive clip from the movie, which is out June 28th. The film stars Himesh Patel as Jack, an aspiring, but flailing, musician who’s involved in an accident while riding his bike at …
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Sam Hendricks was at an LCD Soundsystem show in 2017 when the idea hit him. Moved by that band’s dancefloor grandeur, Sam wanted to write something for his group, Charly Bliss, “in the same vein as one of [LCD’s] songs, where they take a basic idea and stretch it out …
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Willie Nelson turns 86 on Monday and his curated SiriusXM channel Willie’s Roadhouse is celebrating with four days of special programming this weekend. Dubbed “Willie Nelson’s 4-Day Birthday Weekend,” the one-hour block kicks off April 27th at 7:00 p.m./ET and airs at various times through Tuesday night. The special consists …
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Ask a Craig Finn fan to picture the contents of the singer’s brain on a given day, and they might imagine a steady stream of the sort of first-pumping underdog tales he’s spent 16 years shouting onstage as frontman of the Hold Steady. But these days, the singer often fixates …
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