Some of the big winners from Sunday night’s Grammy Awards are seeing a sizable sales bump today, as many of their albums return to the top of the charts. As of press time, “Album of the Year” winnerKacey Musgraveswassitting at Number One on the iTunes chartwith Golden Hour (originally released …
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Travis Scott took the stage at the 2019 Grammy Awards to perform a couple of songs off his Grammy-nominated albumAstroworld during the 61st annual ceremony in Los Angeles. He performed “Stop Trying to Be God” with one of the collaborators on the song, Philip Bailey, and its cowriter, James Blake, …
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Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators have extended their tour in support of 2018’s Living the Dream into 2019 with a batch of summer dates. The 17-date trek opens July 15th at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater and closes, for now, August 13th at Orlando’s Hard Rock Live. The group …
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Stevie Nicks was sitting on Sly Stone’s bed one afternoon in early 1976 when she wrote “Dreams.” Stone’s studio — inside the Record Plant in Sausalito, California — was down the hall from where she and the rest of Fleetwood Mac were recording Rumours, and she’d often go there for …
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The Black Eyed Peas go for a late-night drive in Los Angeles in their new video for “4EVER.” The track features Canadian singer Esthero and comes from their latest LP, Masters of the Sun Vol. 1., which marks a return to the group’s hip hop roots, as well as the Black Eyed …
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Blue-haired pop avant-gardist Billie Eilish has announced her upcoming album,When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, outMarch 29 via Darkroom and Interscope Records. The album follows her 2017 EP, Don’t Smile at Me, as well as a smattering of standalone tracks such as 2018’s “When the Party’s Over” …
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Kurt Vile revels in the thunder on his dreamy new song “Timing Is Everything (And I’m Falling Behind),” issued via Amazon Originals. “Open the floodgates of a downpouring rain in my brain,” the singer-songwriter sings amid a signature swirl of twangy, psychedelic guitar licks. “Forecast is ominous clouds of black/But …
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Welcome to ‘Will I Get Fired For This?,’ an occasionally recurring column in which staff writer Charles Holmes — whose duties include but are not limited to watching and writing about music videos — watches a new music video that he fears will get him fired. Read the previous entry …
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Pixies will issue a new studio album in September and document the recording process with an upcoming behind-the-scenes podcast, “Past Is Prologue, Pixies.” The alt-rock band recorded their as-yet-untitled seventh LP with producer Tom Dalgety, who helmed their most recent record, 2016’s Head Carrier. The quartet —singer-guitarist Black Francis, guitarist …
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Foo Fighters announced Friday that the band’s pre-Super Bowl concert in Atlanta would live-stream on February 2nd, the night before Super Bowl LIII. The band trumpeted the Super Saturday Night live-stream with a humorous, Dave Grohl-directed short inspired by the prison football film The Longest Yard, with the Foo Fighters …
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