Teenage Cancer Trust has announced a livestream series featuring unseen concert footage from the Cure, the Who, Pulp, Paul McCartney and more after their annual live concert series was shelved due to the pandemic. The series, titled Teenage Cancer Trust Unseen, will air for free on YouTube and also include …
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Jesse Malin‘s regular livestream series The Fine Art of Self Distancing has been a high-motion standout in a sea of mostly cement-shoed virtual concerts. While there’s no actual fans present, the gigs find the New York songwriter playing with his full band in a real live rock club — the …
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Patti Smith, Joan Baez and more have shared a socially distanced rendition of “People Have the Power” for Pathway to Paris, a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing climate change. The performance arrives on the sixth anniversary of the non-profit — founded by musician Jesse Paris Smith and cellist Rebecca Foon …
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With both chambers of Congress back in Washington, D.C., music-industry organizations such as the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) are continuing their fight to secure federal funding for clubs and venues teetering on the edge of closing. The political situation remains fairly similar to when the House and Senate left …
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BTS performed “Dynamite,” their first all-English release, during America’s Got Talent on Wednesday. The episode is the second of America’s Got Talent‘s semi-finals results shows, which determines five acts that will move to the finals for the Top 10 competition. During their performance, RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook took to the streets outside …
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Rufus Wainwright has announced Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective!, a livestream tour where Wainwright will perform all nine of his studio albums. The livestreams will see the singer-songwriter performing his albums in chronological order, one album side at a time, starting on Friday, October 9th, with Wainwright performing the first side of his debut …
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The Beatles: Get Back —Peter Jackson‘s eagerly awaited documentary about the making of what came to be theLet It Be album and movie — has been pushed back to August 2021. To help soften the blow, the Beatles have announced the publication of a new companion book to the film. …
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Drake taps Justin Bieber to take his place in the new music video for the rapper’s latest collaboration with DJ Khaled, “Popstar.” The elaborate Director X-helmed clip opens with Khaled hitting Drake with a barrage of video messages, insisting they find some way to make a music video for the …
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David Byrne took to Twitter on Tuesday to apologize for portraying characters of color in a 1984 promo skit for the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. In the original skit, Byrne portrays a series of different characters who are interviewing him — and wears skin-darkening makeup (blackface or …
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The Killers, Jacques Lu Cont and the Rolling Stones have teamed up for a remix of the Stones’ recently unearthed song, 1974’s “Scarlet,” which features Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page on guitar. On the new rendition, the Killers and their frequent collaborator Lu Cont — one of producer Stuart David Price’s …
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