Phish have staged plenty of ambitious moments during their 30-plus year career, from playing an hour-long version of “Runaway Jim” tosuspending themselves above arenas in giant hot dogs.But nothing was more ambitious than their 2017 Baker’s Dozen residency at Madison Square Garden, when the band played 237 different songs, with …
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Jay Som travels back in time to the golden age of adult contemporary in her new video for “Tenderness.” It is the second single off her upcoming sophomore album, Anak Ko, due August 23rd. In the follow-up to last month’s release, “Superbike” — a sparkling homage to Nineties jangle-pop — …
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Snoop Dogg may have jokingly repeated “I wanna thank me” during his acceptance speech when he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last November, but he’s not wrong to pat himself on the back for the hard work he has put into his career. To wit, he …
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Metallica were halfway into their rain-drenched set at Manchester, England’s Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night when James Hetfield handed the stage over to bassist Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett. “These two guys like to get up to no good and have fun and come up with fun little songs …
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Spoon have released a new single “No Bullets Spent,” a recently recorded track that will feature on the indie rockers’ upcoming best-of collection Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon. The 13-song collection, due out July 26th and available to preorder now, features favorites like “I Turn My Camera …
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The 14-disc companion set to Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story just arrived in stores, but Dylan’s team is already looking ahead to their next archival project. “We’re thinking about possibly doing Bob’s work in Nashville from John Wesley Harding through the Johnny Cash sessions as the …
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Reggae stalwarts Toots and the Maytals stopped by Spotify’s studios in New York to record a session that included their clever interpretation of John Denver’s classic, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” as well as their new song, “A Song Call Marley.” Toots and the Maytals slid into “Take Me Home” …
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“So I heard the bad news/Nobody likes me and I’m gonna die alone/In my bedroom, looking at strangers on my telephone,” opens “Number One Fan,” the latest single by Muna. Although it may start off downcast, vocalist Katie Gavin gives the Numan-esque synth-rock cut a rewarding upswing: “Wouldn’t you like …
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The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde unveiled a striking interpretation of Charles Mingus’ “Meditation on a Pair Of Wire Cutters,” set to appear on her upcoming album, Valve Bone Woe, out September 6th via via BMG. The song finds Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble condensing Mingus’ 23-minute original into a …
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Barcelona, Spain’s famed Primavera Sound music festival will expand to Los Angeles in 2020, organizers announced Saturday. The California offshoot, co-produced by Live Nation and coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Barcelona fest, will take place September 19th and 20th at Los Angeles State Historic Park. “We have been …
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