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 …
Read More »Kurt Vile Releases Duet With John Prine, 'How Lucky,' Announces New EP
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 …
Read More »What's It Like to Join the E Street Band? Morello Looks Back at His Time With Springsteen
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 …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Sam Smith, 'Diamonds'
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, …
Read More »'GHGHGH,' 'Legend,' 'Obsessed:' Inside Major Labels' TikTok Vocab List
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 …
Read More »BTS Premiere 10-Minute Trailer for Mobile Game 'BTS Universe Story'
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. …
Read More »Bad Bunny to Hold Exclusive Livestream Concert on Uforia
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 …
Read More »Jimmy Cliff Remembers Toots Hibbert: 'What a Soul, What a Personality'
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. …
Read More »See Mastodon's Interstellar 'Fallen Torches' Video
To celebrate the release of Mastodon’s collection Medium Rarities — which also marks their own 20th anniversary — the metal band has shared the video for “Fallen Torches,” one of the unreleased tracks featured on the compilation out now. The opening of the video, directed by Hey Beautiful Jerk and …
Read More »See Nick Cave Cover T. Rex's 'Cosmic Dancer' on 'Corden'
Nick Cave delivered a solo piano version of T. Rex’s “Cosmic Dancer” — which he recently recorded for the Hal Willner-curated tribute comp Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex — on Wednesday’s Late Late Show With James Corden. While Cave’s version of “Cosmic Dancer” on Angelheaded …
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