UPDATE: Organizers for the Sound on Sound festival have released a new itinerary of rescheduled shows, including Grizzly Bear, Japandroids and the Shins. Austin, Texas’ Sound on Sound Festival, which was set to host artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iggy Pop, Grizzly Bear and more in November, canceled the three-day …
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Singer John Legend and actor Jesse Williams are teaming to executive produce a documentary on Olympic gold medalist and former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tommie Smith, Deadline reports. With Drawn Arms will be co-directed by conceptual artist Glenn Kaino and Afshin Shahidi, who was Prince’s cinematographer and photographer. “We are …
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Pink released an uplifting power ballad on Thursday and announced plans for the Beautiful Trauma World Tour, which will take her around the U.S. and Canada in support of her upcomingBeautiful Trauma album. “Whatever You Want” is a celebration of romantic resilience. “I feel like our ship’s going down tonight,” …
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Walking the Floor celebrates its 100th episode this week with a nostalgic, story-packed interview with Ray Benson. The frontman of Asleep at the Wheel since 1969, Benson has spent nearly 50 years onstage, in the writing room and in the studio, rubbing shoulders with icons like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson …
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On Sunday night in Las Vegas, a gunman opened fire on a concert across from his 32nd-floor hotel room, killing at least 58 people and injuring 515. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, at least for now. (The last tragedy held that distinction for a little …
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Hitchhiker marks a pivotal moment in Neil Young‘s ongoing series of archival releases: Instead of a live classic-songs set, this is a buried-treasure mother lode – 10 newly unearthed studio recordings, cut in one acoustic session, on August 11th, 1976. Young wasn’t exactly swept up in the country’s bicentennial spirit …
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Dave Matthews Band will celebrate the resiliency of their hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia, with an all-star concert featuring Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, the Roots, Cage the Elephant, Alabama Shakes singer Brittany Howard, Chris Stapleton and other special guests. “A Concert for Charlottesville,” set for Sunday, September 24th at the …
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Eric Church has announced 61 Days in Church, a near definitive account of his 2017 Holdin’ My Own Tour. Beginning last week, the ambitious singer-songwriter is releasing batches of live recordings from his tour to Apple Music. Thirty songs are currently available with more than 100 to follow. Following an …
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The time has come, the time has come, the time has come today. LCD Soundsystem have finally returned from a mysterious five-year break-up they never quite explained, despite making a high-profile film documentary ostensibly designed for just that purpose. As rock & roll breakups go, it was about as believable …
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Don’t act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren’t on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. Partially, but it also …
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