On the 27th anniversary of River Phoenix‘s death, his sister Rain has dropped a lyric video for his band Aleka Attic’s “Alone U Elope.” The track features Flea on bass and Dermot Mulroney on cello. Animated by Chris Tucci, the video opens on a theater that reveals a ladder leading …
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In 1969, Jeff Wolfram was carried into the Red Chimney — a Los Angeles restaurant his father had bought two years earlier — and placed on the bar. He was two days old. His father Horst had arrived in America from Germany in the 1960s. Horst wasn’t planning on staying …
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Busta Rhymes previewed his soon-to-be-released albumExtinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of Godon Thursday with a new song, “Look Over Your Shoulder,” featuring Kendrick Lamar. Built around a sample of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There,” the track sees the two hip-hop titans trading bars about their respective successes. Lamar …
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Common has released a new song, “Say Peace,” featuring Black Thought and PJ, that will appear on his new project, A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 1, out this Friday, October 30th via Loma Vista. The track boasts a restless groove of shuffling drums and busy bass, cut with a prickly guitar. …
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The Shins performed their new song, “The Great Divide,” on The Late Late Show With James Corden Monday, October 26th. The group turned in a clever, socially distanced video with frontman James Mercer, drummer Jon Sortland, and bassist Yuuki Matthews all performing their parts from separate rustic settings. To handle …
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With the future of live music in jeopardy due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Harry Styles announced Monday that he is one of the investors in a new concert venue in Manchester, England, called Co-op Live. The AP reports that the new venue costs $456.6 million and is projected to be …
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U2 had a lot to prove when they started work on 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The electronic experimentation of 1997’s Pop turned off many longtime fans, and the album failed to generate any genuine hits. The PopMart stadium tour may have been a technical triumph, but there …
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Matt Berninger performed three tracks from his just-released new album Serpentine Prison — The National singer’s first solo LP — as part of CBS This Morning’s “Saturday Sessions.” For the performance, Berninger and his backing band holed up in a studio to deliver the LP’s “One More Second,” “Collar of …
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Ty Dolla $ign has brought on Jhene Aiko and Mustard for his newest single, “By Yourself,” from his upcoming third studio album Featuring Ty Dolla $ign, out October 23rd. “One of my favorite parts of making this album was getting back in with my brother Mustard and just making hits after …
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Luke Combs was named the Top Country Artist at the 2020 Billboard Awards, held on Wednesday and broadcast on NBC. During the event, Combs also gave a live performance of his new single “Better Together.” Accompanied only by a masked piano player, a suited-up Combs gives a faithful rendition of …
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