During his appearance on Rolling Stone Music Now, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott –whose band will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March –took a listen to Drake’s “God’s Plan,” the biggest song of 2018. Elliott has broad musical tastes, but wasn’t crazy about what he …
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Marcus Mumford doesn’t get nervous a lot. But he admits he’s a little apprehensive the day before Mumford & Sons release their fourth album, Delta, and launch a 63-date arena tour. The band spent months working on the LP, looking for a balance between the folk singalongs of its first …
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The holidays are family time for many so it’s fitting that the brand-new Luke Bryan video for his latest single, “What Makes You Country,” features the singer’s sons Bo and Tate, his nephew Til and a few close friends. Directed by Bryan’s longtime collaborator Michael Monaco and shot last month …
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Todd Snider announced an extensive run of dates for his headlining spring tour in support of an upcoming album,Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3. The lengthy trek, which starts at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on March 13th and ends in Annapolis, Maryland on May 4th, includes an April …
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Richard Hell is known for many things — his short-lived stint in Television, his success with the Voidoids,his long career as a downtown poet. But maybe best of all, he’s known as the handsome lothario of the 1970s NYC punk scene. Yet when cultural historian Carlo McCormick asked Hell about …
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Here lies Taylor Swift‘s reputation — or at least the final nail in the coffin of herReputation era. Since its release last November, Swift’s sixth album has kept a deserved hold on the pop narrative of the last year, but on Friday, the album and its singles were all suspiciously …
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The newest chapter of Bruce Springsteen‘s ongoing live download series spotlights a show he played at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California on October 18th, 1975. Born To Run had come out a little less than two months before the show and the hype around the album was reaching a …
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Spiritualized will embark on a 2019 North American tour next spring in support of their latest album, And Nothing Hurt. The band will get things underway March 22nd with a set at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. The tour will then criss-cross the United States over the next …
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Makaya McCraven’s set at New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday touched on a universe of musical styles. Driving funk, hypnotic reggae, loping odd-time vamps, hectic Afrobeat-esque workouts and more all found their way into the mix as the Chicago drummer and his 11-piece all-star band — featuring a roll …
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By the time you finish reading this sentence, three new songs will have been uploaded onto Spotify.This time tomorrow, the number will have risen above 20,000 songs — a daily deluge of music which would take you a month and a half to listen to . . . without sleep. …
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