Like many of Prince‘s former collaborators, Levi Seacer, Jr. still refers to his old boss in the present tense. Seacer joinedPrince’s post-Revolution touring band on bass not long before the release of 1987’s Sign O’ the Times, and stuck around as the band morphed into the New Power Generation, switching …
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Mastodon‘s Brann Dailor and Russian Circles’ Mike Sullivan joined for a collaborative version of Alice in Chains‘ “Rain When I Die” as part of the “Two Minutes to Late Night” quarantine cover series. Dailor plays drums on the colorful rendition, adding harmony vocals alongside lead singer Justin Suitor (Painted Wives). …
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Beastie Boys and Bonnaroo have uploaded the band’s last-ever concert — a 2009 headlining gig at the Tennessee music festival — on YouTube just for this weekend. The June 12th, 2009 show — the Beasties’ final performance prior to Adam “MCA” Yauch’s cancer diagnosis later that year — was first …
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Kurt Vile has shared a duet with the late John Prine, performing the singer-songwriter’s classic tune “How Lucky.” In a statement, Vile referred to the recording as “probably the single most special musical moment in my life.” “The truth is John was my hero for a long time when he …
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For anyone who lived through the Nineties, it’s still absolutely wild that the guitarist of Rage Against the Machine joined the E Street Band for a while, even considering Rage’s “Ghost of Tom Joad” cover. Tom Morello‘s first collaboration with Bruce Springsteen (who stars in our latest cover story) was …
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Sam Smith is reborn. At least that’s how it sounds on their new single “Diamonds” — three minutes and 34 seconds of catharsis. A little over a year ago, the London-bred singer/songwriter, whose pronouns are they/them, shared on Twitter that they’d spent the preceding year and a half in therapy, …
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Earlier this month, Shannon Mingal, a digital marketer at Epic Records, received an unexpected text: A glossary of 40 to 50 phrases supposedly used by Gen Z, the sub-25, tech-savvy demographic whose preferences currently dictate the streaming charts, an all-important barometer of success in the music industry. The collection ranged …
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BTS and Netmarble have released a 10-minute cinematic trailer forBTS Universe Story, an “interactive social game” that stars the South Korean seven-piece group. The trailer features the BTS members in a variety of live-action and CGI settings, showcasing the game’s different worlds and gameplay options while hinting at its story. …
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Bad Bunny will perform in an exclusive livestream concert on Univision’s Uforia platform, kicking off the return of the Uforia Music Series. The show, produced by Uforia and Verizon, will be streamed live on Sunday, September 20th at 6:00 p.m. ET. fans across the country can watchviaUforiaMusic.com, Bad Bunny’s YouTube …
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In 2019, Jimmy Cliff said he considered Frederick “Toots” Hibbert and the Maytals’ 1962 album Never Grow Old the birth of the reggae genre. The two singers often pushed each other artistically through friendly competition, with Cliff also recruiting Toots and the Maytals to appear in The Harder They Come. …
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