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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Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet From Stardom) will highlight Rick Rubin‘s eclectic resumé and unique creative process in Shangri-La, an upcoming documentary series about the acclaimed music producer. A “work-in-progress” cut will screen at the 2019 SXSW Festival, scheduled for March 8th-17th in Austin, …
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Vince Staples is matter-of-fact: about his music, about his upbringing in Long Beach and about his sobriety. If anything, the FM!rapper has become more direct and slightly prickly explaining his choice to avoid alcohol and drugs over his career — an understandable decision, considering how quickly outside observers tend pigeonhole …
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Gary Clark Jr. previewed his upcoming LP This Land by playing two new songs, the title-track and “Feed the Babies,” on Thursday’s Late Show. The guitarist showcased his eclecticism with the two cuts. On “This Land,” which he released in its studio form earlier that day, he leaned into the …
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