A day before the 50th anniversary of Blue, Joni Mitchell has revealed a digital EP of outtakes and demos. The highlight of the five-track EP is “Hunter,” an outtake that was only released on the live albumAmchitka, the 1970 Vancouver Greenpeace benefit Mitchell performed with James Taylor. In addition to …
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Rostam has released an expanded edition of Changephobia via Matsor Projects/Secretly Distribution, which features his new covers of the Clash’s “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)” and Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits of My Labor.” While he stays true to the general tone of both covers, he puts his improvisational spins on …
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A new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now celebrates Bob Dylan‘s 80th birthday, starting with a look at our definitive new list of the top 80 Dylan covers, from Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower” to Sam Cooke’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Angie Martoccio, David Browne, Andy Greene, and Simon …
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The Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp mentorship program has announced its first-ever Women Only Rock Camp, to be held in Los Angeles over the Grammys weekend, January 27th through 30th, 2022. At the program’s Rock Camps, participants form a band where they are then mentored by a counselor and rehearse …
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Warren Haynes and Robert Randolph delivered a rousing rendition of the Marshall Tucker Band classic “Can’t You See” as part of this year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, which took place Thursday, June 3rd at the Beacon Theatre. Guitarist and former New York Yankees great Bernie Williams and the event’s …
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Neko Case has released a new version of herHell-On track “Halls of Sarah,” produced by Portuguese-American musician RAC, along with the announcement of her new weekly Substack newsletter, Entering The Lung. “I’ve always been in love with nature,” Case said in a statement. “I have felt ‘outside’ of it for …
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Lil Baby and Kirk Franklin team up on the new song “We Win,” the first song from the soundtrack for the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy. The aspirational and inspirational gospel-fueled track — produced by Just Blaze — finds Lil Baby rapping, “We will be better than ever/Made a …
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More than 1,000 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama have been on strike since April 1st. Their venture capital-backed employers seem determined to starve them out, so local supporters have organized a benefit concert to boost the miners’ strike fund and support their ongoing fight against the …
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Hours after releasing their new album Delta Kream, the Black Keys appeared virtually on The Late Show to perform a pair of tracks from their covers LP. Guitarist Dan Auerbach, drummer Patrick Carney and their backing band of musicians huddled in a room to play R.L. Burnside’s “Going Down South” …
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Okkervil River have released a new song, “In a Light,” marking their first piece of new music since 2018. “In a Light” is an expansive country-rock tune filled with organ, piano, pedal steel, rich harmonies, and intertwining guitar lines that occasionally take the song into spacier realms and lead an …
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