David Bowie‘s “Beat of Your Drum” is reworked into bruising, majestic art-rock in a 2018 mix of the track. The new version appears on the Loving the Alien (1983-1988) box set, a collection of Bowie’s studio and live albums from that era. Sawing strings and David Torn’s crashing guitars highlight …
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Ethan Hawke donned a pair of blonde braidsto embody Willie Nelson on Tuesday’sTonight Show, performing a parody of his signature track“On The Road Again.” Host Jimmy Fallon, aping Johnny Cash, joined Hawke and hisBlaze co-stars Charlie Sexton (as Kris Kristofferson) and Ben Dickey (Waylon Jennings). The track, originally featured on …
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In mid-2015, Andrew Hozier-Byrne was living out what seemed like any musician’s dream. The Irish singer-songwriter’s independently released breakout single “Take Me to Church” sparked a U.S. label bidding war, skyrocketed to Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100, and, much to his surprise, entrenched itself on pop radio for …
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Last week, scientists learned that 40-foot piles of compacted sea ice — some of the oldest and most durable clusters in the Arctic — are breaking away from the coast of Greenland and drifting out to sea. One meteorologist called it “scary,” but it was hardly unexpected. As the earth’s …
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