When Pixies set out to record their latest album, Beneath the Eyrie, last December, they decided to do something unprecedented: They taped their entire process in the studio, including songwriting, recording and mixing the music for the record, and allowed British music journalist Tony Fletcher to witness the whole thing. That …
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As promised, Drake dropped two new songs Saturday, “Omertà” and “Money in the Grave,” to celebrate the Toronto Raptors’ NBA championship win. The two-track The Best in the World Pack mark the rapper’s first songs of 2019. Outside of the two-pack’s cover art, neither track mention the basketball team or …
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“Lightskin Lil Wayne” should be blasphemous. 2019 Tyga is a streaming titan, an entertaining maker of booty jams and an adept deployer of an innocuous sample, but he’s no Weezy F. Baby. In terms of lyrical dexterity or formal innovation, Tyga has yet to match the artistic heights of his …
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Radiohead have released 18 hours of material from the OK Computer era on Bandcampone week after it was leaked online. The release comprises 18 minidiscs that feature both full band material and music frontman Thom Yorke recorded by himself. The entire set — which has not been broken into individual …
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A capacity crowd packed East Rutherford, New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on September 22nd, 2012 to watch Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band play their final area show of the Wrecking Ball Tour. It was his third straight show at the stadium and previous nights had seen a surprise reunion …
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Meek Mill shared a powerful new video for “Oodles O’Noodles Babies,” a harrowing cut off the rapper’s 2018 LP Championships. While Meek Mill doesn’t appear in the new video, the Will Ngo-directed visual captures the heavy imagery of the rapper’s lyrics about growing up as one of the titular “Oodles …
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Tony Glover, the influential blues harmonica player who was a longtime peer of Bob Dylan and helped teach Mick Jagger how to play, died Wednesday, the Star Tribune reports. Glover reportedly died of natural causes after being hospitalized earlier this month. He was 79. Glover made a lasting impression on …
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Riot Fest announced the lineup for the festival’s 15th anniversary, to take place in Chicago’s Douglas Park on September 13th-15th. Blink-182, after having to cancel their 2018 Riot Fest performance for health reasons, will return for this year’s festival. Riot grrrl legends Bikini Kill will perform a reunion set and …
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Ed Sheeran, Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock caution they will clap back fast at anyone who steps to those they care about in new song “Cross Me.” The song appears on Sheeran’s forthcoming No.6 Collaborations Project, out on July 12th via Atlantic. While they don’t mess around with disrespectful …
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Taylor Swift and Panic! at the Disco‘s Brendon Urie performed their song “ME!” for just the second time live on the season 16 finale of The Voice. The two singers and their backing performers danced in front of a gigantic, bedazzled rainbow butterfly, with plenty of sparkles and technicolor swirls …
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