OneRepublic and Alessia Cara joined the lineup for Avril Lavigne‘s Lyme disease livestream benefit concert. The event, set for October 24th at 8 p.m. ET, will benefit the Avril Lavigne Foundation and Global Lyme Alliance. Rob Thomas and host Wilmer Valderrama were recently announced for #FightLyme With Avril + Friends, …
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Jack White paid tribute to Eddie Van Halen and performed tracks from across his career during his last-minute musical guest spot on Saturday Night Live. White’s first performance featured a medley built around the White Stripes’ “Ball and Biscuit,” with the rocker reworking the Elephant favorite to feature both a …
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Lykke Li teams with Oscar-winning producer Ludwig Göransson for the new song “Bron,” her first-ever single in her native Swedish and her first new music in over a year. Translated as “The Bridge” in English, the song sees Lykke Li contemplating a recent heartbreak and convincing herself that she must …
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Bartees Strange has ignored musical boundaries his whole life, without even thinking about it. “When I played in hardcore bands, I remember writing songs and throwing in these R&B sections, or a melodic guitar section, and people would be like, ‘Bro, what are you doing? This is a hardcore band,’” …
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Stevie Nicks will be releasing a concert film,Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold the Concert, in select screenings in the coming weeks. But fans can now catch a sneak preview of the movie with a clip of Nicks performing “Rhiannon” during her sold-out 24 Karat Gold Tour. The minute-and-a-half-long video shows …
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Anderson .Paak has released a slick new single, “Jewelz,” which was co-produced by Timbaland. The track is a no-nonsense blast of funk-pop that’s centered around a crisp guitar lick, peppered with delicate synths and anchored, of course, by an irresistible rhythm section. The track finds .Paak in a playful mood, …
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As part of our newly updated survey of the500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. The Beatles‘ Abbey Road came in at number five. The following piece originally appeared in a Beatles special issue …
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Nandi Bushell, the 10-year-old drummer phenom whose friendly drum battle with Dave Grohl went viral, has penned a theme song for her rival-idol called “Rock and Grohl, the Epic Battle.” Her tune and the accompanying video follows a theme song Grohl wrote for Bushell last month. “Mr Grohl. The song …
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British punk stalwarts Crass have shared a previously unreleased alternate version of “Sheep Farming in the Falklands” called “Sheep Farming 3,” which will appear on the upcoming box set, Crassical Collection, out October 30th. Originally released in 1983 as a single with “Gotcha” on the B-side, “Sheep Farming in the …
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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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