The annual Austin City Limits festival kicked off on October 5th-7th with a jam-packed three-day lineup of rock, rap, pop and more. With the Texas senate race heating up (along with the actual atmospheric temperatures in Texas), it was a particularly zesty weekend of music. Here are the most memorable, …
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One year ago this week, Eric Church celebrated the final moments of his 2017 tour on the Las Vegas Strip, where he played an outdoor show to 22,000 attendees at the Route 91 Harvest festival. “You guys have fun tonight in Las Vegas!” he shouted from the front row, after …
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After a week of controversy, Jacquees drops his latest “Quemix,” this time taking on Drake’s “Jaded.” What’s a “Quemix,” you ask? It’s what happens when a young Cash Money singer remixes so many popular songs that you might as well give them all a catchy name. One of Jacquees’s defining …
Read More »Sigur Ros Drummer Resigns After Rape Accusation
Sigur Rós announced Monday that the band “accepted the resignation” of drummer Orri Páll Dýrason following accusations of rape against Dýrason that surfaced in the past week. “In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days, we have today accepted the resignation of …
Read More »Watch Brockhampton Perform in Audience for Fervent 'New Orleans' Video
Brockhampton have unveiled their new video for “New Orleans.” The song is the first track on their newly releasedIridescenceLP. Similar to their previously released “San Marcos” video, fans are featured in the new visual, but this time the members of the group are performing live in the video, which was …
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A long-awaited song from the Pistol Annies, Brothers Osborne‘s new single and Lucie Silvas‘ glorious “Kite” are among the 10 country and Americana tracks you need to hear now. Pistol Annies, “Got My Name Changed Back” Miranda Lambert celebrates her independence with this countrified kiss-off. “It takes a judge to …
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Nas dropped by The Late Show Tuesday to perform his “Adam and Eve,” off his latest LP Nasir, as well as discuss recording his Kanye West-produced album in Wyoming with Stephen Colbert. While the Nasir version of “Adam and Eve” features The-Dream, the rapper instead recruited Late Show bandleader Jon …
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Pip Blom is a 22-year-old Amsterdammer with a perfect post-punk name and a Cobain-ish gift for saying a lot with a little. On “Come Home,” the new single by her band (which is also called Pip Blom, duh), she taunts some tragic sap who’s under the impression they get her: …
Read More »John Lydon Looks Back on 40 Years of Public Image Ltd.
“I’m not a sad sack,” says John Lydon. “The more problems you give me, the better I look.” The Public Image Ltd. frontman and former “Mr. Johnny Rotten” has been reflecting lately on the last four decades of his career, the time in which he separated himself from the Sex …
Read More »Metallica Plot Charity Acoustic Concert
Metallica will play as special acoustic concert this fallraising money for their charitable organization. The gig, dubbed the All Within My Hands Foundation Helping Hands Concert and Auction, will take place at the Masonic in San Francisco on November 3rd. Cage the Elephant will open the evening with an acoustic …
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