Longtime Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss announced her departure from the seminal alternative rock band. In a public statement, Weiss said the band was “heading in a new direction” and that “it is time for me to move on.” “I will never forget the heights we reached or the magnificent times …
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Taylor Swift will headline Amazon Music’s 2019 “Prime Day” concert, which will stream live July 10th at 9 p.m. ET on Prime Video. The New York show at an undisclosed location will also feature performances from SZA, Dua Lipa and Becky G, while Jane Lynch will host the event. Prime …
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Aaron Watson isn’t changing his tune anytime soon. The West Texas native has been nothing if not persistent in his 20-year climb to country music hit-maker, a fact that began to pay off when 2015’s The Underdog made him the first solo male performer since the dawn of the Nielsen …
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Thom Yorke will release his new solo album, Anima, digitally on June 27th, with a physical version arriving July 19th. Yorke wrote all of Anima, and the album was produced by frequent Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich. Yorke, Godrich and Tarik Barri debuted several songs on the album during past Tomorrow’s …
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Perry Farrell, the frontman of LA alt-rock band Jane’s Addiction and one of the co-founders of the Lollapalooza festival, performed “Pirate Punk Politician,” on The Tonight Show Monday night. The track is from his latest solo album Kind Heaven. The song is a slinky hard rock anthem with unsurprisingly political …
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Keb’ Mo’ has shared a video advocating against single-use plastic using his track “Don’t Throw It Away” with Taj Mahal. The song features on singer’s just-released new album Oklahoma. The “Don’t Throw It Away” visual features Mo’ strumming the blues in a chair alongside images of landfills, oceans and the …
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Opening with a slashing guitar riff and the wail of singer Cody Cannon, Whiskey Myers’ new song “Die Rockin’” is a blast of potent rock & roll with a Southern flavor. “I’m gonna rock until I die/I’m gonna die rockin’,” Cannon sings, letting you know exactly where he lands on …
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Thirty years ago, no one would have expected that Nine Inch Nails’ foreboding industrial dance rock would be at the nexus of Top 40 pop conversations. Yet, in 2019, Trent Reznor is everywhere he may have never wanted to be: you can hear the 2008 instrumental track “34 Ghosts IV” …
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Anyone who ever owned an album by Gordon Lightfoot might not immediately recognize the man sitting on a metal chair in a dressing room at New York’s Town Hall. These days, Lightfoot only passingly resembles the strapping, mustached, square-jawed troubadour whose ballads, like “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Early …
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Madonna has unveiled her new video for “Dark Ballet.” It’s the fifth and final preview that will be released from her forthcoming Madame X, due June 14th. The cinematic clip stars Mykki Blanco, who portrays Joan of Arc. In the visually arresting Emmanuel Adjei-directed video, Mykki Blanco is seen bravely …
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