Neil Young has released “Vacancy,” the latest offering from Homegrown, the previously shelved 1975 album he’s finally releasing on June 19th. One of the seven unreleased tracks on the album, “Vacancy” opens with a churning guitar riff, as Young sings “Who are you?/Where are you going to?” He then addresses …
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Rufus Wainwright released the video for the charming, folksy “You Ain’t Big,” the latest single off his upcoming album Unfollow the Rules, slated for July 10th. The clip opens in the style of an old film, complete with a scene in an editorial office as a man discusses how he …
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The Indigo Girls played a handful of songs from their manager’s office in Atlanta for In My Room, our IGTV series in which musicians perform while in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seated at a safe distance from each other and in front of a couch covered with vinyl copies …
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Phish have been dropping Neil Young covers into their live set ever since they first played “Cinnamon Girl” at Gallagher’s Bar & Grill in their native Vermont back in 1989. Over the years, they added “Albuquerque” and “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” into the mix, but they never got …
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The fate of one of the last major summer tours in the lurch has been decided: The long-awaited Doobie Brothers 50th-anniversary tour, which would have reunited the band with its former keyboardist and singer Michael McDonald, has been rescheduled for 2021. “This decision has been made with the health and …
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After nearly a decade with Wings, in 1979, Paul McCartney decided to make a record for himself, by himself, as he’d done with his first solo album, 1970’s McCartney. So he retreated to his Scotland farm with a bunch of synthesizers and bleeped and blooped his way into one of …
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OK Go released a new song on Wednesday in honor of frontline health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic, inspired by both the nightly cheer for essential workers at 7 p.m. and by a recent Rebecca Solnit essay in The Guardian. The track, “All Together Now,” was written and recorded …
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The Killers are currently in a bit of a limbo state as they await word on when they can reschedule their world tour and release their upcoming record, Imploding the Mirage. But earlier this year, before anyone knew the term “COVID-19,” they stepped by Rolling Stone‘s studio to share memories …
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The Jayhawks are out Tuesday with “This Forgotten Town,” the second track off the band’s forthcoming album XOXO. They previously dropped the Elliott Smith-esque tune “Living in a Bubble.” The mid-tempo jangly roots-pop gem opens the band’s first album of new material since 2016’s Paging Mr. Proust. The song features …
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The guitar Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana‘s famed MTV Unplugged in New York concert is headed to auction with a starting estimate of $1 million. The guitar will be part of the “Music Icons” sale at Julien’s Auctions, taking place June 19th and 20th in Beverly Hills and on the …
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