EDITORS’ PICK: Chris Cornell, Chris Cornell This 64-track retrospective of the late grunge icon’s career is a testament to his vocal prowess and thoughtful approach, apparent even on early Soundgarden tracks like the chugging Ultramega OK opener “Flower” and Louder Than Love’s still-relevant environmentalist plea “Hands All Over.” Tracing his …
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Duran Duran ruminate on migration – of both people and birds – in their vivid 30th anniversary video for “The Edge of America,” a song from their 1988 LP, Big Thing. Throughout the clip, Colombian-Venezuelan media artist/engineer David Medina creates collages of public domain images themed around immigration and U.S. …
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Tenacious D returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday to perform a pair of songs from their just-released new album Post-Apocalypto. Jack Black and Kyle Gass opened their Kimmel mini-concert with the album’s uplifting folk song “Colors” – “Colors are the thing that make the world better / I’ve been seeing …
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In contemporary pop, artists seem exceptionally open to interdisciplinary collaboration. Brazilian baile funk acts like MC GW are borrowing from the reggaeton being made in Colombia and Puerto Rico. Jamaican dancehall singers like Konshens are working with afrobeats producers like DJ Tunez, a Brooklyn-based beat-maker of Nigerian descent. The latest …
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Unreleased George Michael music will feature in the 2019 film Last Christmas, a romantic comedy inspired by the Wham! holiday classic. Paul Feig is set tp direct the upcoming film from a script co-written by Emma Thompson, Variety reports, adding that Last Christmas will arrive on November 15th, 2019. Game …
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On October 30, 1993, Pete Tong oversaw the first episode of the Essential Mix on BBC’s Radio 1. Club music was ascendant in the U.K., and Tong devoted a late-night slot to it on national radio, playing an uninterrupted string of house — inspired by iconic New York City mix-shows …
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Melvin Ragin, known as “Wah Wah Watson” for the quivering, darting, wonderfully textured sounds he conjured from his guitar and wah wah pedal in countless sessions for stars of soul and funk, died on Wednesday. He was 67 years old. “It’s with a heavy heart that we regret to announce …
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Critical derision, like musical trends, is cyclical. In a now-infamous pan of Led Zeppelin’s debut,Rolling Stone slammed guitarist Jimmy Page as a “very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs.” Decades later, RS named Led Zeppelin the 29th-greatest album of all time. Enter Greta Van Fleet, a Michigan-bred …
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On paper, Valee and Matt Ox shouldn’t work. One half of the duo has spent a year building and deconstructing flows like a carpenter, the other is a prepubescentrapper trying to turn a meme-able moment into a sustainable career.In the case of “Awesome,” though, the Chicago and Philly rapper concoct …
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This Friday, October 19th, marks the 20thanniversary of Cher‘s “Believe,” the hit song that ended up predicting our future of techno-bubblegum and robo-warble. A massive hit in 1998and 1999 — it was Number One in America, the U.K., Australia, France, Germany and more — it helped introduced the world to …
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